Ministry of Employment and Social Protection

Sarri, Stamatina Amalia, Head, Directorate of Employment, Social Protection and Insurance

Indeed pregnant women are afforded substantial protection under the Employment Act.

The ILO employment and social protection sectors developed a joint proposal for the agenda of the ninety sixth session (2007) of the International Labour Conference on the theme Employment and social protection in ageing societies .

In practical terms, this meant the involvement of indigenous peoples in project design, employment, environmental protection, social security and cultural protection measures.

One example of a national project is the Palestinian Fund for Employment and Social Protection.

Kazakhstan amended its employment legislation and carried out capacity building activities to ensure employment, social development and protection for migrant women.

Social protection, housing, employment, and labor are not on the ADB s new agenda.

(d) Promoting women's equal access to labour markets, sustainable employment and adequate labour protection

(d) Promoting women's equal access to labour markets, sustainable employment and adequate labour protection

The challenge is to develop institutions and public policies in the fields of employment, education and training that can enhance employment opportunities while ensuring adequate social protection.

Within the context of a global employment agenda, ILO has developed a decent work agenda that emphasizes employment, rights at the workplace, social protection and social dialogue.

States parties are invited to take all legislative, administrative and other measures aimed at ensuring the protection of the child, taking account of all forms of employment, including employment within the family and in the agricultural sector and informal employment.

g) Memoranda of Understanding with countries of employment to ensure the protection of the workers rights (MOU already signed with Kuwait and Jordan, and include joint Permanent Legal Assistance in the countries of employment)

Work Integration Employment of the victims in co operation with the Ministry of Employment and Social Protection in the context of the EQUAL Community Initiative, which provides for training, labour integration and employment of the victims of trafficking in new areas of the economy, through innovative actions.

Recently adopted legislation included the new Labour Law, the Law on Labour Protection, a number of regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers on employment and labour protection and the Administrative Procedure Law.

According to recent International Labour Organization (ILO) statistics, informal employment employment without secure contracts, worker benefits or social protection constitutes 50 to 75 per cent of non agricultural employment in developing countries and tends to be a larger source of employment for women than for men in all developing regions except North Africa.

Moreover, in the context of the above programme, the Research Centre for Gender Equality, in collaboration with the Ministry of Employment and Social Protection, the General Secretariat for Gender Equality and the Employment Inspectorate, has organized seminars for employment inspectors in Athens and Thessaloniki, concerning

(f) Full employment, expansion of productive employment

The issue is how to provide social protection, career development and employment security to these part time workers.

The protection of women workers' rights is stipulated under Law No. 1 of 1951 on Employment and under Government Regulation No. 4 of 1951 on Rest Periods and No. 8 of 1981 on Wage Protection.

In the earlier period, within employment legislation of BiH women have been guaranteed equal salary for equal work and ensured special protection of motherhood, health and social protection based on the same principles.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

The Ministry for the Family, Social Protection and Solidarity was seeking solutions to the difficulties women experienced in employment.

The seminar considered women apos s employment and atypical forms of work, active labour market policies, social protection and women apos s representation.

Specific issues related to the employment of children are regulated also by the Law On Protection of the Rights of the Child of 19 June 1998.

Technical and economic aspects of the gemstone industry are being addressed as is employment, particularly of tribal people, with emphasis on women and environmental protection.

It argued for more expansionary macroeconomic policies to generate employment, public sector investments to serve the poor, and the establishment of social protection systems.

Protection of rights to education, employment, treatment and confidentiality for men and women living with HIV continues to be a key area for action.

Contracts of employment

Adaptability of employment

Target areas encompass accessibility, education, employment, income maintenance and social protection, family life and personal integrity, culture, recreation, sports and religion.

The activities have also been planned which aim at development of procedure for application of the law in all areas envisaged under the Law itself (public life, political representation, employment, social and health protection, protection against violence, etc.).

The flow of workers out of employment exceeds the flow back into employment.

75. The Constitution of Namibia provided for protection of the rights of disabled people and the enhancement of their integration in the spheres of education, health, employment and accessibility.

(d) Support the promotion of decent employment opportunities, rights at work, social protection and social dialogue, as well as raising the quality of work, skills and capabilities

Even in the advanced countries which have highly developed official systems of social protection, there is increasing recourse to casual, temporary or part time forms of employment.

69. The main employment problem in many countries is not open unemployment, but rather precarious, low productivity and low income employment, in which workers are deprived of any form of social protection beyond that provided by their families or sometimes by local communities.

Enforcement of Employment Legislation

Expansion of productive employment

Five years of employment

Ministry of Employment and Labour (2004), Project document of the Employment Skills Training Project.

But whatever measures of political qualities and ownership separation we use, the index of employment protection appears to be the best predictor of ownership separation in the wealthy West.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to review the staffing needs of the Protection Information Section and to comply with the rules on recruitment and employment of consultants.

Decent work is at the centre of the ILO mandate and activities, bringing together the goals of rights at work, employment and income, social protection, and social dialogue.