Abstract:
The present research aims at studying the risks guaranteed
by
the
law of social insurances , such as the risk of illness, the
disability, death, or maternity, in the framework of a
comparat
ive study between the Algerian and the Egyptian laws
of social insurances so as to determine whether the two laws
have achieved their objectives , that is to say giving the necessary
soc
ial protection to the contributors in case they are faced with
one
of
these
risks which would disable them and make them lose
the
income on which their family and they depended to meet the
requirements of the daily life .
The main factor that led to the study of this important and
practical subject is the problem of defining the needs and
requirements of each Algerian or Egyptian individual, taking
into account the increase of the demand and the rising cost of
living which deprive the low income individual of the minimum
required .
The study is based on a comparative method for its main
part,
relying from time to time on the analytical method , and it
is organized around three main chapters .
The preliminary chapter, divided into two sections, is
devoted
to
the
de
velopments of the social insurances and their
pecul
iarities.
The first section deals with the means used to face the
soc
ial risks before the advent of the social insurances The second section investigates the peculiarities of the
soc
ial insurances and how they differ from the other similar
systems
.
In the first chapter of the study, we dealt with the field of
application of the law of social insurances.
The first section focuses on the contributors and on the
required conditions according to the Algerian law of social
insurances .
The contributors and the conditions required in the
Egyptian law are dealt with in the second section.
A third section is devoted to the way of financing and
managi
ng the social insurance expenditures.
The third and last chapter of the present research assesses
the
ri
sk
s guaranteed by the law of social insurances .
The first section is devoted to the risk of illness , since it is
the
mos
t important risk covered by the law of social insurances.
The second section deals with the risk of disability as a
ri
sk
guaranteed by the law of social insurances .
The risk of death , a risk covered by the law of social
insurances , and a risk that puts an end to the life of the
contr
ibutor and to his/her active life , is the subject of the third
sect
ion.
The fourth section analyses the risk of maternity and birth
for the working woman, since it involves a decrease in her
income used to support her family and herself, keeping in mind
that
the
role of the social insurances is to guarantee a decent
standar
d of living to any contributor in case of a temporary or
per
manent
loss of his/her income for circumstances beyond their
contr
ol.A solution is proposed to the problem set up related to the
efficiency of the laws of social insurances designed to provide a
soc
ial security protection to the contributors in the Algerian and
Egyptian laws of social insurance, because of the compulsory
natur
e which characterizes this law; a social insurance system
which in our opinion, should be managed by state run
organizations in order to achieve the social and economic role
that
it has to play.
Proposals have been submitted to the Algerian legislator in
thi
s context, and among them the need to extend the ‘ tierspayant
’ system updated by decree N° 17/96 dated 06 July 1996,
which will cover all the categories of contributors, considering
its positive aspects, and the need to limit the maternity leaves to
a number of three during the professional life of the woman, as
it was done by the Egyptian legislator