3.2 Social Security

The meaning: the income-and-care protection against the life's contingencies — the sickness, the maternity, the disability, the old age, the death, the unemployment — the wage's replacement and the risk's socialisation (the Beveridge-style architecture: the cradle-to-grave idea; the ILO's social- security conventions' floor). The instruments (the syllabus's four): The Provident Fund (PF): the savings' institution — the worker's-and-employer's monthly contributions (the matched percentages); the interest's accrual; the withdrawal's rules (the retirement-and-resignation; the housing-medical-emergencies' partial faces); the portability (the job-change's transfer) — the worker's own accumulated capital, protected; The Gratuity: the service's reward — the long-service benefit (the qualifying years; the month-per-year calculation lore); the employer's funding (the gratuity's employer-borne character — the PF's contributory vs the gratuity's employer-borne distinction); the payment's timing (the termination's settlement); The Workmen's Compensation: the injury's answer — the employer's liability for the work- connected injury or death (the no-fault compensation — the schedules' faces); the medical care's duty; the disablement's scales (the permanent-partial-and-total; the dependants' death benefit); the doctrine's history (the old Workmen's Compensation Act's era) and the modern face (the Labour Act 2074's compensation provisions + the Social Security Fund's accident- medical packages); the insurance interface (the employer's liability covers); The Employee's Motivation: the engagement's science — the recognition, the career paths, the participation (the suggestion schemes, the works committees), the profit-sharing faces (the…