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Suisse: Vers la retraite à 65 ans pour tous et une forte hausse de la TVA pour l'AVS

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rts.ch (03.02.2018) Alain Berset devrait présenter vendredi au Conseil fédéral plusieurs variantes pour réformer l'AVS, a appris la RTS. Au menu: la retraite à 65 ans pour les femmes et une forte hausse de la TVA.

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switzerland
Global challenges
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Pensions
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En Suède, sport obligatoire pour les employés

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Le Temps (02.03.2018) La marque de vêtements Björn Borg, créée par l’ancienne star du tennis, impose à ses collaborateurs une heure d’exercice hebdomadaire au nom de la convivialité et de la productivité. Le cas n’est pas isolé dans le pays

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sweden
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Prevention of occupational risks

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Ethical artificial intelligence - 10 essential ingredients

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OECD (24.01.2018) Artificial intelligence (AI) must put people and planet first. Discussions on the ethical use of AI are essential on a global scale to guarantee widespread implementation and a transparent solution. A global convention on ethical AI that encompasses all is the most viable guarantee for human survival.

 

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Africa
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Europe
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Employment
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Information and communication technology
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Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Large-scale automation
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Luxembourg: Signature de la convention de sécurité sociale avec la république de Corée

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Le gouvernement luxembourgeois (01.03.2018) Le ministre de la Sécurité sociale, Romain Schneider, et l’ambassadeur de la république de Corée, Son Excellence Hyoung-zhi Kim, ont signé le 1er mars 2018 la convention de sécurité sociale entre le grand-duché de Luxembourg et la république de Corée.

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korea, Republic of
luxembourg
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International agreements
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South Korea Shortens 'Inhumanely Long' Workweek

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NPR (01.03.2018) Employees in South Korea work long hours: 2,069 hours per worker annually – the second-highest among the Economic Cooperation and Development states, after Mexico. In the United States, that figure is 1,783. Those long hours went hand-in-hand with the country's booming economy in the 1980s and '90s.

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korea, Republic of
Global challenges
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Employment
Employment policies
Human resource management
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India's Aadhaar: A Unique Opportunity for Innovating in Digital Trust, But an Opportunity Easy to Squander

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oecd-forum.org (23.01.2018) As India's Prime Minister headlines the Davos gathering and highlights the country's unique situation and economic potential, it is important to note that India can offer two major digital innovations to the world: the number zero and a unique ID system for a billion people. With mismanagement and lack of visionary leadership and innovation, its contributions could reduce to a single one: a big zero.

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india
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Information and communication technology
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Business processes
Service delivery
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Kazakh Labour and Social Protection Ministry to focus on self-employed workforce, digitisation

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astanatimes.com (15.02.2018) The Kazakh Ministry of Labour and Social Protection will focus on formalising the self-employed workforce and continue digital transformation in the field in 2018, according to newly-appointed Minister Madina Abylkassymova.

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kazakhstan
Global challenges
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Unemployment
Service quality
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Labour market
Service delivery
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Suisse: Les androïdes payeront-ils leurs cotisations sociales?

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Le Temps (13.02.2018) Le salariat s’effiloche et c’est tout notre système social qui devra être revu pour protéger les travailleurs vulnérables de la «gig economy». A l’ère du travail indépendant et des robots collaboratifs, il faudra trouver le moyen d’asseoir une solidarité 4.0

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switzerland
Global challenges
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Information and communication technology
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Labour market
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[Interview] Vietnam: Retirement age must increase

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Vietnam News (07.02.2018) The average Vietnamese lives to 73.4 years - 70.8 for men and 76.1 for women. However, the average retirement age for both men and women is only 54.2 years old, 55.6 for men and 52.6 for women. Generally speaking, the years of participating in social-insurance for men is 28 years and 23 years for women while their years of enjoying the retirement pension is 18.1 years for men and 24.5 years for women.

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vietnam
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Pensions
Financing
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[Analysis] Ethiopia: Public Ownership Key to Sustainable Social Protection System

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allAfrica (12.02.2018) Although, Ethiopia has an array of formal and informal support mechanisms, programs, action plans and interventions that aims at serving a variety of social protection purposes, the most direct - the National Social Policy - is designed as part and parcel of an integrated approach to the progressive realization of social and economic rights noted in article 41 of the constitution, which state, "The State shall, within available means, allocate resources to provide rehabilitation and assistance to the physically and mentally disabled, the aged, and to children who are

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ethiopia
Global challenges
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Social assistance
Conditional cash transfers

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