03/02/2025 08:37 AM

Ukrainian enterprises are demonstrating remarkable resilience by turning obstacles into opportunities. A notable example is their effort to address labour shortages caused by the war through the recruitment and integration of people with disabilities (PwD).

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.

23/12/2024 09:30 AM

The International Social Security Association (ISSA) gathered experts from across Africa and beyond for a technical seminar in Dakar, Senegal from 10–12 December 2024, to raise awareness about the climate-related challenges for occupational safety and health (OSH).

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.

12/12/2024 09:20 AM

Bolstered by administrative and technological innovations, social security organizations in Asia and the Pacific are enhancing their support to individuals throughout their life course. Over the past decade, the region has achieved the largest increase in social security coverage globally. These are key messages of the new report Social Security Developments and Trends – Asia and the Pacific 2024.

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.