1. Union follow up to Recommendation No
Union follow up to Recommendation No concerning “National Social Protection Floors” adopted during the 101st session of the ILC

2. Comprehensive reference model for the ITUC
Fight against inequality
Floor - Fight against poverty

3. Universality as opposed to focalization
National Social Protection Policy
Objective of SPP:
- Horizontal dimension of the Strategy for the Extension of Social Security -
Universal coverage

4. Social Protection Floor initiative: objective
Impact of
Crisis
Inequality
Poverty
Universality of Social Protection

5. UN Social Protection Floor Initiative
Social Protection Floor: components from the perspective of the United Nations as a whole
UN Social Protection Floor Initiative
Services
guarantee availability, continuity and geografic and financial access to essential services
Water and sanitation;
Foodstuffs and adequate nutrition:
Health, education, housing, etc.
Transfers
guarantee a basic set of essential social transfers (monetary and in kind), and facilitate access to essential services
Basic SS guarantees:
- Child allowance
- Incomes for active adult population
- Old age and disability allowances
- Essential health

6. The ITUC’s concern in discussions
Extension of social protection to all men and women:
Reference to freedom of association and collective bargaining
“full respect for collective bargaining and freedom of association for all workers” (guiding principle)
Focus on rights
“Basic social security guarantees should be established by law” (point 7)
Within the framework of a comprehensive social security system
“social protection floors ... as part of comprehensive systems” (page 2)
With a contributory financing scheme characterized by progressive contributions.
“financial, fiscal and economic sustainability with due regard to social justice and equity” (point k) in the guiding principles)
With a focus on the benefits and standards set out in Convention No. 102 as the minimum standard of social security.
Convention referred to explicitly on three occasions in the text of the Recommendation

7. With the tripartite participation of social actors and social dialogue “... tripartite participation with representative organizations of employers and workers, as well as consultations with other relevant and representative organizations of persons concerned” ... (guiding principle)
d) “in regard to the establishment and review of the levels of these guarantees, tripartite participation with representative organizations of employers and workers, as well as consultation with other relevant and representative organizations of persons concerned, should be ensured.”
-… 13.1) “Members should formulate and implement national social security extension strategies, based on national consultations through effective social dialogue and social participation”.
Members should monitor progress in implementing social protection floors and achieving other objectives of national social security extension strategies through appropriate nationally defined mechanisms, including tripartite participation with representative organizations of employers and workers, as well as consultation with other relevant and representative organizations of persons concerned ...”

8. Indirect insurance Exclusion
Social security: model grounded in the “head of the household” and based on the labour market
Sexual division of labour – family model
Man as provider of economic income
Labour market –
“remuneration”
Woman as provider of care
Family –
“non-remuneration”
Contributory /
Direct insurance
Non-contributory /
Indirect insurance Exclusion

9. Contributing factor: Gender gap
Exclusion from contributory social protection
Lower activity and occupation rates
Higher unemployment
Part-time and temporary work
Horizontal and vertical labour market segregation
Wage gap
Informal economy and atypical jobs
Family responsibilities: discontinuity in work history
Exclusion from schemes: maternity
Lower bases for contribution
Lower densities of contribution
Should this be a priority criterion for the social protection floor?

10. Social protection within the context of the United Nations System
Rights Approach
HR – ICESCR – CEDAW
Social
Protection
(Strategic axis of Decent Work)
Ensure income and access to health
Reduce inequaity and injustice
Establish adequate benefits with recognized rights
Fair distribution within the globalized economy
Element in overcoming economic crises
ILS– C102 – C183 - C156 – C100 – C111
SDGs, 2015
Declaration on Social. Justice, 2008
Global Jobs Pact, 2009
SPFI 2009

11. Gender Equality: Cross-cutting axis
Achieve greater influence for the
International Labour Standards
Push forward the dialogue between the various sectors of society
Promote in particular gendere quality
Decent Work
Labour principles and rights
Employ-ment
Social Protection
Social dialogue
Cross-Cutting Axes
Cross-Cutting Axe
Strategic axes

12. Caring for Persons: At the heart of the SPF
Minimum income security, active adult population
Access to essential services: health, education, housing, water and sanitation, foodstuffs and nutrition, life skills information.
Minimum income security in childhood
Income security in old age and for persons with disabilities.
Essential medical care: basic health packages, with particular emphasis on protection of maternity
Social Protection Floor Initiative
Four basic social security guarantees
Essential services
Provision of care

13. Articulation of the Basic Guarantees with the Essential Services
Minimum income security, active adult population
Access to essential services: health, education, housing, water and sanitation, foodstuffs and nutrition, life skills information.
Minimum income security in childhood
Income security in old age and for persons with disabilities.
Essential medical care: basic health packages,
with particular emphasis on protection of maternity
Social Protection Floor Initiative
Four basic social security guarantees
Essential services
Provision of care
Sectoral and social promotion policies:
Educational policies
Health policies
Others: housing, water, equality, and PRS, etc.
Active employment policies
Policies for provision of care

14. Basic social security gurantee Minimum income guarantee
Access to essential services, including care
Access to the labour market
Basic incomes for children
Transfers in kind: food, housing, clothing…
Education (0 to 15 years of age)
Community and preventive health
Child population cared for by public networks, to facilitate incorporation of women and men
Interaction between transfers and essential services: coverage of needs for care
Basic incomes for the adult population
Monetary transfers
Protection for maternity and paternity
Active employment policies, sectoral housing policies
Positive actions for incorporation of women
Basic incomes for seniors and the disabled
Monetary and in kind: food, housing, clothing…
Daytime and night-time community services, and residential services, including community health care
Elderly population, those with disabilities and dependents, cared for by public networks, to facilitate the incorporation of women and men
Essential medical care
Public Health Network (health system): inclusion of the contributory and non-contributory pillars, in order to ensure equality of citizenship in access to health services, addressing the differing health and epidemiological profiles of women and men