1 Social Security Systems, Decent Work, Wages and Social Protection Floor Initiative of the Global Jobs Pact

State Responsibiity in defining National Strategies Tripartism as process The four strategic objectives are inseparable, interrelated and mutually supportive (FoA and CB as priorities)

DECENT WORK DECENT EMPLOYMENT First level of Income Distribution Between Work and Capital First level of Income Distribution Between Work and Capital WAGEDECENT DISTRIBUTIVE EQUILIBRIUM COLLECTIVE BARGAINING Legitimate Space Of Participation To insure a First level of Income Distribution Distribution Skill NECESSARY CONDITION: FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION NECESSARY CONDITION: FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION

Comprehensive Overview of the Social Security System (Convention 102) DEATH PERMANENT DISABILITY TEMPORAL DISABILITY ACCIDENTS AT WORK MATERNITY ILLNESSS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE UNEMPLOYMENT DISABILITY AGEING PENSIONS FAMILY ALLOWANCES SHORT-TERM BENEFITS LONG-TERM BENEFITS

Comprehensive Overview of the Social Security System (Convention 102) DEATH PERMANENT DISABILITY TEMPORAL DISABILITY ACCIDENTS AT WORK MATERNITY ILLNESSS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE UNEMPLOYMENT DISABILITY AGEING PENSIONS FAMILY ALLOWANCES SHORT-TERM BENEFITS LONG-TERM BENEFITS Second level of income distribution Between Work and Capital “REDISTRIBUTION” Second level of income distribution Between Work and Capital “REDISTRIBUTION”

DEATH PERMANENT DISABILITY TEMPORAL DISABILITY ACCIDENTS AT WORK MATERNITY ILLNESSS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE UNEMPLOYMENT DISABILITY AGEING PENSIONS FAMILY ALLOWANCES SHORT-TERM BENEFITS LONG-TERM BENEFITS UNION PRIORITIES NATIONAL PRIORITIES NATIONAL STRATEGIES

Global Jobs Pact - response to the crisis (1)  Strenghening current social security systems and building up the bases of effective systems in those countries that need the most a social protection floor for all. Building adequate social protection for all, drawing on a basic social protection floor including: access to health care, income security for the elderly and persons with disabilities, child benefits and income security combined with public employment guarantee schemes for the unemployed and working poor;

providing minimum benefit guarantees in countries where pension or health funds may no longer be adequately funded to ensure workers are adequately protected and considering how to better protect workers’ savings in future scheme design;(Chile) Extend duration and coverage of unemployment benefits (together with employment incentives for job creation, according to current national labour markets) Ensuring that the long-term unemployed stay connected to the labour market hrough, for example, skills development for employability Global Jobs Pact - response to the crisis (2)

Support Production Recovery Support Economy (Domestic Demand) Avoid / Allievate poverty Provide a kit of basic benefits for all Social Protection Floor Initiative -Aims

Ensuring a basic set of essential social transfer and services, to provide a minimum income, livelihood and security for poor and vulnerable populations Horizontal extensión of Coverage Target Group Either universal or Focused on a target group below a certain level of income? WHAT? Social Protection Floor Initiative (1) WHICH STRATEGY?

HOW? Social Protection Floor Initiative (2) Health, food security, protection to children, unemployment, elderly WHICH AREAS?

¿ HOW? Reference level of Income: WHICH IS THE FLOOR? Minimum Wage? - Basic Basket? - Poverty Line? How to finance it? Taxes? – Reform of the Tax System? International Cooperation ? – Foreing Debt – WB? How to institutionalize tripartite participation in designing the system? Specific spaces of social dialogue? Tripartite social dialogue on wages or minimum salaries? Integration Mechanisms with Decent Work? Tripartite Follow Up Mechanisms? State and Employers’ Responsibility on the social floor and its link with decent work promotion Social Protection Floor Initiative (3)

¿ HOW? Reference level of Income: WHICH IS THE FLOOR? Minimum Wage? - Basic Basket? - Poverty Line? How to finance it? Taxes? – Reform of the Tax System? International Cooperation ? – Foreing Debt – WB? How to institutionalize tripartite participation in designing the system? Specific spaces of social dialogue? Tripartite social dialogue on wages or minimum salaries? Integration Mechanisms with Decent Work? Tripartite Follow Up Mechanisms? State and Employers’ Responsibility on the social floor and its link with decent work promotion Social Protection Floor Iniciative (3) Rights-based approach

The social protection floor can constitute an instrument to extend S.S. coverage to reach vulnerable populations; it has to be part of an integral sistem which nucleus is given by DECENT WORK and DECENT WAGES. The importance of the relation between Collective Bargaining, Wages and financing of Social Security through sufficient wages, in order to guarantee current and future income: the concept of DEFERRED WAGE, that is when the current salary is sufficient to CONTRIBUTE to SOCIAL SECURITY Two final ideas

" Social Floor " and " Social Building " are two images to represent respectively the horizontal extension (population) and vertical (quantity and quality of benefits) of the Social Security coverage.

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