Translation of "Assurance maladie familiale " (French → English) :

The lack of compensatory crediting for periods of unemployment, sickness or caring duties can also lead to gaps, as can lack of coverage of vulnerable groups, such as short-term contract and atypical workers, or insufficient minimum pension guarantees or income provision for older people, but these raise questions about financing.

Sickness and maternity insurance, national pensions, family benefits, unemployment benefits and employment pensions:

When discussing these different labour market transitions, the following types of benefit schemes are considered: (i) unemployment insurance and unemployment assistance; (ii) minimum income guarantee and other forms of social assistance (including housing benefits); (iii) employment-conditional benefits and other similar provisions; (iv) support for families and parents (family benefits, maternity, paternity and parental leave schemes, child-care benefits and provision, elderly care and care for disabled people); (v) early retirem ...[+++]ent; and (vi) support for sickness, invalidity and work-related injuries.

Whether it was the first Department of Labour established in 1900, the first Veterans Pension Act in 1919, Old Age Pensions Act in 1927, Unemployment Insurance Act in 1940, Family Allowance Act in 1944, universal pensions in 1952, the Canada pension plan and medicare in 1966, or the Canada Health Act in 1984, Liberals have had a long and important tradition of developing programs that provide assistance to Canadians.

If, on leaving his country of origin to seek employment within the Community, a European national loses all or some of his rights (pension, unemployment, sickness insurance, family benefits ...) his/her mobility is severely restricted.

VI Social Policy and Social Protection - an Active Society for All The Commission will propose maintaining and adapting the European model of the welfare state by: - monitoring the social challenges that Member States face as regards social protection expenditure; - a complementary Recommendation on the adaptation of social protection systems to changing family structures, notably through the individualisation of rights and contributions on the basis of a comparison of actual gender inequalities in social security; - a Recommendation on the financing of social security setting out common guidelines to promote better adaptation of socia ...[+++]l security to employment promotion while maintaining solidarity networks and permitting the co-existence of different national systems; - a further Recommendation on long term care insurance for people who become dependent; - a modification to the Directive on equal treatment in occupational social security schemes in line with the Barber judgement, the additional protocol to Article 119 in the Treaty on European Union, and the ECJ post Barber judgements clarifying the application of this Article 119 in the field of occupational social security.