The report on the symposium "Challenges to the ILO in the 21st Century: On the Future Role of a 100 Years Old Organisation" is now available for download (see below). On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the International Labour Organization, scientists and experts from Germany and abroad discussed at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy the challenges and expectations facing the organization. In particular, they looked at how the ILO deals with changes in industrial relations resulting from digitisation, the rise of the platform economy and atypical forms of employment

Almost half of all children of single parents in Germany experience poverty. This means that they and the parent with whom the roughly one million girls and boys affected live have to make do - for a certain time or permanently - with an income below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. The financial plight of many single parents, 90% of whom are women, has several causes: structural negligence on the part of the legal system, too few all-day childcare places, discrimination on the labour market and, last but not least, a lack of maintenance payments by the ex-partner. "The social law framework does

Die Europäische Kommission hat Anfang 2018 einen Vorschlag für eine Verordnung über die Bewertung von Gesundheitstechnologien auf den Weg gebracht. Künftig sollen Experten des Health Technology Assessment (HTA) aus den Mitgliedstaaten in einer Koordinierungsgruppe gemeinsam bewerten, ob ein neues Arzneimittel bzw. Medizinprodukt einen Zusatznutzen gegenüber der Standardtherapie aufweist oder nicht. Das Ergebnis soll für alle EU-Mitgliedsstaaten grundsätzlich bindend sein. Das europäische Parlament stimmte dem Entwurf inzwischen zwar zu, beschloss aber 199 Änderungsanträge, die die Kompetenz der

Die Ansprüche von 65- bis 79jährigen Frauen aus der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung lagen nach den jüngsten vorliegenden Vergleichszahlen aus dem 2016 rund 42% hinter denen der Männer. Damit steht Deutschland EU-weit an fünftletzter Stelle. Insbesondere verheiratete Frauen und Witwen aus Westdeutschland sind von dem Gender Pension Gap betroffen. "Die verfassungsrechtliche Forderung einer tatsächlichen Gleichstellung bei den Alterseinkommen wird derzeit nicht erfüllt", sagt Dr. Eva Maria Hohnerlein, Wissenschaftlerin am Münchner Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik. Sie

On the occasion of the anniversary of the German Basic Law, the Federal Government has asked well-known constitutional experts to explain the 19 fundamental rights in 70 seconds each. In his short contribution, Prof. Ulrich Becker, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, illustrates the right of asylum as laid down in Article 16a. Against the background of the experience with the National Socialist regime, the founding fathers and mothers of the German Basic Law sought to grant protection in Germany to victims of political persecution. In 1993, however, asylum

As a result of the economic and financial crisis of 2008, many pensioners had to forgo the adjustment of their pensions for years. Combined with fundamental reforms of pension systems, the risk of poverty among pensioners has increased in many countries of the European Union (EU). Older pensioners aged 75 and over are particularly at risk. This is the conclusion of a study undertaken by the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy which examined the changes in the adjustment modalities for existing pensions in the EU States between 2008 and 2017. In view of the risk of poverty