Social Panorama of Latin America 2018
El Panorama Social 2018 analiza temas cruciales para entender y actuar ante los desafíos estructurales que enfrentan los países de América Latina y el Caribe en la actual coyuntura económica y social, especialmente en el marco de las transformaciones en curso en los mercados de trabajo. Incluye nuevas revisiones...
Read MoreThe Inefficiency of Inequality
Consistently with the emphasis that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has placed on equality since 2010, and in keeping with the purpose of leaving no one behind enshrined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this document examines the mechanisms by which inequality erodes...
Read MoreThe Inefficiency of Inequality (Summary)
Consistently with the emphasis that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has placed on equality since 2010, and in keeping with the purpose of leaving no one behind enshrined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this document examines the mechanisms by which inequality erodes...
Read MorePension and Income Transfers for Old Age: Inter- and intra-generational distribution in comparative perspective
This document provides a world comparative analysis regarding the design and reform of pension systems in order to improve coverage, equality and sustainability. It looks at how pension systems, rules and financing affect coverage, sufficiency, and distribution as well as fiscal and intergenerational sustainability and...
Read MoreConfronting Inequality: Social protection for families and early childhood through monetary transfers and care worldwide
This paper analyzes social protection policies for families and early childhood focusing on three main policies: family allowances and other types of monetary transfers for families with children, work leaves and early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies worldwide. It analyzes the design and reform of policies which protect...
Read MoreRobot-lución: The future of work in Latin American Integration 4.0
This new edition contains the work of over 40 experts from different parts of the world, who analyze the risks that automation may pose to work and how this may affect integration and employment. More than 40 global experts imagine the future of work and integration of Latin America...
Read MoreUniversal Social Protection Floors: costing estimates and affordability in 57 lower income countries (ESS Working Paper No. 58)
This paper presents the results of costing universal social protection floors in 34 lower middle-income, and 23 low-income countries, consisting of: (i) allowances for all children and all orphans; (ii) maternity benefits for all women with newborns; (iii) benefits for all persons with severe disabilities, and (iv) universal old-age...
Read MoreLinkages Between the Social and Production Spheres: gaps, pillars and challenges
Latin American and Caribbean region is facing a complex set of economic and social circumstances that threaten the conditions needed for further progress towards the goal of eradicating all forms of poverty and ensuring that no one is left behind, as required by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development....
Read MoreInnovations in Care: new concepts, new actors, new policies
The Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality marks an unprecedented advance in the care agenda in terms of the visibility of care as a central dimension of sustainable development. The new international commitment for recognizing, redistributing and reducing unpaid care and domestic work through care policies needs to...
Read MoreActive Labour Market Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean: evidence from a meta analysis
We present a systematic collection and assessment of impact evaluations of active labour market programmes (ALMP) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The paper delineates the strategy to compile a novel meta database and provides a narrative review of 51 studies. Based on these studies, the quantitative analysis...
Read MoreCode du travail haïtien
Employment Act No. 14
Employment Act No. 14 (Modified 2000)
National Insurance Act (Modified 2007)
Article 12 states that: Maternity benefit shall be granted to a woman for a period starting from a date not earlier than six weeks before the expected date of confinement and continuing until the expiration of (a) 12 weeks; or (b) 6 weeks from the date on which confinement...
Read MoreLey 4.099
Indica que toda empleada o trabajadora del Estado, o de sus instituciones u organismos autónomos, del ayuntamiento del Distrito Nacional o de los Ayuntamientos, así como de cualquier persona, empresa o entidad particular, gozará, en caso de quedar en estado de embarazo, de descanso forzoso, durante las seis semanas...
Read MoreLey 8-95 y Decreto 31-96
La Ley declara como prioridad nacional la promoción, enseñanza y difusión de la práctica de la lactancia materna. El Decreto establece el Reglamento para la Aplicación de la Ley sobre Promoción, Enseñanza y Difusión para la Práctica de la Lactancia...
Read MoreLey 87
Establece que el Sistema Dominicano de Seguridad Social (SDSS) desarrollará servicios de estancias infantiles para atender a los hijos de los trabajadores, desde los 45 días de nacidos hasta cumplir los cinco años de...
Read MoreLabour Standards Act
Labour Contract Act
An Act to make provisions whereby every employer is required to provide each employee within the application of this Act with a written contract specifying certain particulars of his employment; to provide the contents of a basic labour contract, and for the purposes connected therewith....
Read MoreSocial Security Act 38/1975
Defines the benefits available to eligible insured persons, including Maternity Benefit (art. 27b) and Maternity Grant. Specific rates and benefits are outlined in Regulations presented within Statutory Rules and Orders (S.R.O.) for the implementation of this...
Read MoreChild Care Board Act
Employment Act No. 27
General Orders
Social Security Act (Antigua and Barbuda)
Antigua and Barbuda’s Social Security Act...
Read MoreLabour Code
Section C20 of the Labour Code of Antigua and Barbuda states that “female employee with a minimum of twelve months unbroken service in her employment is entitled whenever she is pregnant to a maternity leave of at least six weeks.” In paragraph (3) of the same section it reads...
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