by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Workplace/Employee Benefits
NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD: The U.N. labour agency urged Indian states thinking of relaxing workers’ rights to help industry survive the coronavirus to consult workers first as a union linked to India’s ruling party said it would protest the planned moves.Six...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pension & Social Security
BERLIN: Germany will have to stabilise its social security system with cash injections to cushion the effect of coronavirus on health, the labour market and pensions, officials said on Thursday, an effort experts estimate could cost many billions of euros....
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Life, Non-Life
Zurich: The first annual Geneva Association Women in Insurance Award goes to Garance Wattez-Richard, CEO of AXA Emerging Customers, for her work to tackle the insurance protection gap in emerging markets and protect underserved populations. Charles Brindamour,...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2020 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Life, Non-Life, Pension & Social Security, Technology
Capgemini and Efma’s World Insurance Report 2020, published today, reveals that consumers of all ages are adopting a ‘millennial mindset’, and increasingly trusting their own research through various channels to source information and purchase...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said announced a Rs 3.16 trillion package of free foodgrains for migrant workers, concessional credit to farmers and working capital loan for street vendors as part of the second tranche of fiscal...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
New Delhi: The coronavirus pandemic has led to a three per cent drop in global trade in the first quarter of 2020 and this downturn is expected to accelerate in the next quarter to project a whopping quarter-on-quarter decline of 27 per cent, the UN trade body...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
LONDON: Lloyd’s of London is likely to pay out $3.0-4.3 billion in claims related to the coronavirus pandemic and underwriting and investment losses for the global non-life insurance sector could reach a record $203 billion, Lloyd’s said on...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
A special committee of WeWork board members filed a motion in Delaware on Monday to prevent it from being disbanded, as it pursues legal action against majority owner SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) over an abandoned $3 billion tender offer for the office space-sharing...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
LONDON: A mental illness crisis is looming as millions of people worldwide are surrounded by death and disease and forced into isolation, poverty and anxiety by the pandemic of COVID-19, United Nations health experts said on Thursday. “The isolation, the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
DUBAI: Temperature screening and face masks will become common sights at airports to mitigate the spread of the new coronavirus but physical distancing could make flying more expensive, the head of Dubai airport said. Around the world, governments,...
