15/01/2025 10:00 AM
Addressing occupational safety and health in the context of climate change
The International Social Security Association (ISSA) gathered experts from across Africa and beyond for a technical seminar in Dakar, Senegal to raise awareness about the climate-related challenges for occupational safety and health (OSH).
08/01/2025 09:21 AM
Social dialogue key to economic and social development, enabling inclusive transitions
The new ILO Social Dialogue Report 2024 shows the potential of peak-level social dialogue in promoting decent work in an era of unprecedented change.
17/12/2024 09:10 AM
Asia-Pacific forum drives efforts to formalize informal economy, addresses climate impact on vulnerable workers
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
Imaginative regulation on compulsory social insurance
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: A Major Policy Priority
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
Equitable transition policies must prioritize social welfare, labor, and decent work
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
Health insurance coverage be expanded
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.
28/10/2024 04:29 PM
Bussinesses with social insurance debt be handled
Social insurance participation is right and obligation of employees and employers. However, some businesses in Vietnam still have evasion or late payment of social insurance premiums.
Sickness
Work Injury and Occupational Disease
Survivor’s
Old-age
Maternity
Unemployment
Medical (Health Insurance)
Certificate of coverage
VSS - ISSA Guidelines on Social Security