Tuesday, September 21, 2021
The International Labour Organization's (ILO) 2020-2022 World Social Protection Report revealed that 46.9% of the world’s population are “covered by at least one social protection benefit”, excluding health. Arab states fall below the global average, at...
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Africa, Asia, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made the majority of people living in the MENA region even more vulnerable, adding...
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Domestic workers are the country's unsung heroines and must have access to the Compensation Fund. This ruling, made on Thursday by the Constitutional Court, overturned the law that made domestic workers the only group of employees who couldn't claim...
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Mobilising more savings into EjoHeza Long Term Savings Scheme has been integrated into districts’ performance contracts – Imihigo – for the financial year 2019/2020, Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente has said. EjoHeza is a pension scheme intended to ensure...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
The High Court in Pretoria has ruled that domestic workers were eligible to claim from the Compensation Fund if they were injured, contracted a disease at their place of work. The High Court in Pretoria has ruled that domestic workers were eligible to...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Botswana has been ranked amongst top three in Africa for spending on social protection services and creating systems that were targeted at poverty eradication and remote area development.
This was said by the World Bank senior economist Mr Victor...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
The Governments of Rwanda and Congo Brazzaville last week signed a Memorandum of Understanding that would enable the transfer, from one country to the other, of social security benefits related to pensions and occupational hazards for one country’s...
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Africa, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda
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Thursday, March 17, 2016
Mothers on maternity leave will now receive a 24% increase in their social security benefit from the current N$10,500.