Mardi, 8 Mars 2022
Flexible workplace policies might help improve gender gaps in employment but they can also weaken women's position in the labour market.
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Mardi, 11 Janvier 2022
Women and young people were hit the hardest by job losses during the pandemic but some governments used innovative policies to improve the situation.
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Mardi, 23 Novembre 2021
New and innovative social protection solutions are urgently required to strike a balance between the provision of safety nets, promote financial resilience and human capital development, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob
Mercredi, 3 Novembre 2021
COVID is forcing us to rethink and recalibrate our approach because many people have lost their income, their jobs, their family members, their assets and their savings. This has led to poverty, poor health and much more unbearable situations to the...
Lundi, 1 Novembre 2021
A MalaysianTrades Union Congress (MTUC) leader urged the Government to establish an Old Age Social Protection Scheme to help retirees weather out their twilight years comfortably. “We would propose that a nominal percentage from taxes collected be...
Vendredi, 15 Octobre 2021
ALTHOUGH the flexibility offered by the gig economy has encouraged more Malaysians to be self-employed during recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic reveals the vulnerability of the social protection system in Malaysia.
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Mercredi, 13 Octobre 2021
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed huge gaps in Malaysia’s social protection system not just for the B40 but also for the M40. It showed that people are vulnerable even if they appear to be quite wealthy and it has been a shock that can hopefully be a...
Lundi, 11 Octobre 2021
When the Movement Control Order started last year, a survey by the Statistics Department showed that 46.6 per cent of the self-employed lost their jobs. Only five per cent had enough savings to last them for at least three months. They may not have...
Vendredi, 1 Octobre 2021
Klang MP Charles Santiago has urged the government to come up with a workers’ insurance scheme for informal sectors and improve the state of social security for older communities.
He said that in order to tackle the situation, the government must...
Dimanche, 29 Août 2021
Social protection includes policies, programmes and measures aimed at ensuring a basic standard of living for a nation’s people, and protecting them against major shocks such as serious illnesses, injury and unemployment. The Covid-19 pandemic that...