New Zealand has a published national figure for deaths caused by work-related ill health. It is 750 to 900 a year, set alongside 5,000 to 6,000 hospitalisations a year, and both come from a single piece of work: a report published by WorkSafe New Zealand in August 2019. That rep…
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750–900as of 2019 estimate, report published 2019-08
The United States has no single national source of data on evictions. Eviction is governed mainly by state and local law and handled by local courts, and the Government Accountability Office reported in February 2024 that researchers do not share one definition of what an evicti…
The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 passed the federal Parliament on 2024-11-29 and the prohibition commenced on 2025-12-10. It bars Australians under 16 from holding accounts on the services the eSafety Commissioner designates as age-restricted, and …
The Species at Risk Act puts deadlines on the documents that are meant to follow a listing, and it gives the federal cabinet two instruments for reaching habitat that federal land does not cover. One of them is the safety net order in section 61, which applies to critical habita…
One decision rule governs an ocean area of 35,716,100 square kilometres, about 10 percent of the world ocean, and that rule has two settings rather than one.
고용노동부는 2026-07-17 시행된 「산업안전보건기준에 관한 규칙」 개정으로 체감온도 31도 이상 작업장에 냉방·통풍·휴식 중 하나 이상의 조치를, 체감온도 33도 이상에는 2시간마다 20분 이상의 휴식을 의무로 적었습니다. 이것은 부령의 조문이고, 지키지 않았을 때 무엇이 따라오는지를 정한 조항이 함께 보도됐습니다.
New Zealand delivers most maternity care through a Lead Maternity Carer, and most of those carers are midwives who are not employed by a hospital. They are paid module by module under a notice made under section 88 of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. The wo…
Supplemental Security Income, known as SSI, is the federal cash benefit for aged, blind and disabled people with almost no income and almost no assets, and it does not reach four US territories. The Social Security Advisory Board stated in its 2025 statement on the program that …
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435,886–455,200as of 2018 survey basis at the low end and 2020 Census basis at the high end, both reported through 2022
In Western Australia, consent to use land in a way that damages or destroys a registered Aboriginal heritage site is given by a Minister under Section 18 of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA). Since a 2023 amendment, a party can ask the State Administrative Tribunal to review…
In June 2019 the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, a commission established by the federal government, delivered its final report with 231 Calls for Justice addressed to governments, institutions, industries and all Canadians. Among them was …
International shipping has no binding global price on its greenhouse gas emissions, and the one that the International Maritime Organization drafted and approved has not been adopted.
고용보험법 제45조 제4항은 구직급여를 셈하는 가장 낮은 기준인 최저기초일액을 이직 전 1일 소정근로시간에 이직일 당시 시간급 최저임금액을 곱한 값으로 정합니다. 제46조는 그 값의 100분의 80을 구직급여일액의 하한으로 정합니다. 그래서 구직급여 하한액은 최저임금으로 산정한 일액의 80%이고, 최저임금이 오르면 하한액도 따로 정하는 절차 없이 함께 오릅니다.
In 2012 New Zealand gave acute rheumatic fever a national number. As one of the Better Public Services targets, the Government set out to cut first hospitalisations for the disease by two-thirds, from a 2009 to 2011 baseline of 4.0 per 100,000 to 1.4 per 100,000 by 2017-06. The …
A hospital organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code is treated as exempt only if it meets four requirements added by section 501(r) in 2010, as part of the Affordable Care Act. It must conduct a community health needs asses…
On 2026-05-01 an executive of the agency that runs the National Disability Insurance Scheme told a parliamentary hearing that of about 45 billion Australian dollars paid out in the financial year that ended 2025-06, about 8.3 percent, or about 3.7 billion dollars, was lost to wh…
On 2024-10-10 the Pharmacare Act received royal assent. The statute sets out four principles for prescription drug coverage — accessibility, affordability, appropriate use and universal coverage — and places on the federal Minister of Health a duty to work toward them with the p…
Resettlement is the transfer of a refugee from the country where protection was first sought to a third state that has agreed to admit that person. UNHCR sets out the terms of it on its own help pages: resettlement is not a right, the countries that resettle offer limited quotas…
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2,400,000–2,500,000as of two consecutive single-year assessments, not an interval on one year: 2.4 million for 2027 published 2026-06-16, and 2.5 million for 2026 published 2025-06-24
제조물책임법 제3조의2는 결함 등의 추정을 정합니다. 소비자가 제조물이 정상적으로 사용되는 상태에서 손해가 발생했다는 것, 그 손해가 제조업자의 지배영역에 속한 원인으로 발생했다는 것, 그리고 그 손해가 결함 없이는 통상적으로 발생하지 않는다는 것 — 이 세 요건을 증명하면, 제조업자가 다른 원인을 증명하지 못하는 한 결함과 인과관계가 추정됩니다. 이 조항은 2017-04-18 개정 법률로 들어와 2018-04-19 시행됐습니다. 그러니 이 제도가 준 것은 입증책임의 전환이 아니라 조건부 추정이…
New Zealand provides emergency housing through a discretionary welfare payment, the Emergency Housing Special Needs Grant, administered by the Ministry of Social Development. The number of households receiving it is also a Cabinet-level numeric target. Government Target 8 is a 7…
The Federal Election Commission is constituted under 52 U.S.C. 30106 as a body of six commissioners, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, with no more than three drawn from any one political party. The same section conditions the substantive acts of the agency…