23/01/2025 09:20 AM

Social media has fundamentally transformed the landscape of public engagement with government organizations, creating new avenues for communication and interaction. Globally, governments utilize social media to disseminate vital information quickly, provide service and information to individuals that are traditionally hard to reach, improve engagement with individuals by leveraging multi-mode communication strategies, and gather feedback on policies and initiatives.

15/01/2025 10:00 AM

Occupational safety and health is everyone's responsibility. Implementing solutions to improve working conditions is a key factor in gradually reducing the hazards of the working environment for employees. Conducting accurate, fair, reasonable, and balanced assessments and classifications of heavy, hazardous, and dangerous jobs will contribute to improving working conditions.

08/01/2025 09:21 AM

Southeast Asia is experiencing an unprecedented rate of population aging. Alongside this demographic shift, the working-age population is gradually decreasing and aging before achieving high-income levels. In response to this situation, policymakers need to develop solutions to ensure social security for informal sector workers. These solutions should include promoting voluntary pensions, expanding social pensions, increasing the coverage of voluntary social insurance, and establishing mechanisms to encourage participation in the social security system.

17/12/2024 09:10 AM

Regional stakeholders urge integrated strategies to promote decent work, emphasizing climate resilience and systemic change ahead of 2025 International Labour Conference discussions.

27/11/2024 09:34 AM

Compared to the 2014 Law on Social Insurance, amended provisions are imaginative, particularly those paying social insurance premiums based on the salary regime decided by employers.

21/11/2024 10:04 AM

Ensuring social security (SS) is a major policy and mission of the Party and the State of Vietnam, aiming to promote social progress and justice, maintain socio-economic stability, and improve people's living standards. Over the years, the pillars of SS have been given due attention, reflecting the perspective of linking economic development with social progress and fairness.

14/11/2024 08:39 AM

The International Labour Organization will highlight the critical role of social dialogue and labour protection in fostering an inclusive green transition at the UN Climate Change Conference.

04/11/2024 08:53 AM

Accordingg to USA’s commonwealth fund, an estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023.1 While the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured rate represents a sea change from the years prior to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), when twice as many people — 49 million, or 16 percent of the population — lacked health coverage.2 This was also a time when people with preexisting conditions were out of luck when they sought to buy insurance on their own, when millions of young adults became uninsured when they graduated from high school or college, and when insurance companies in the individual market charged young women much higher premiums than young men and rarely covered maternity care.