'It was the week when we were receiving our allowances in terms of locums and alike, it was unfortunate that I didn't appear on the locum list… I was very depressed, I was very demotivated, because after working hard within that month I did not receive any locum, not even any appreciation from the management'.
The point missed by those who object to high earners receiving this allowance is that, in terms of the financial impact on families, there's really no difference between removing £20 a week in benefit from someone and asking them to pay £20 a week more in tax.
Other allowances are seen as poor in terms of reliability and regularity.
Further, the payment of travel allowances is creating perverse incentives in terms of service delivery.
These included low salaries, long shifts and lack of consideration from the administration in terms of allowances or refreshments for night duties.
Second, although we underscore a labor-market spillover, in terms of increased allowance rates reducing the total number of employable individuals, this does not directly imply changes in the labor force participation rate.
"There has to be a participatory process in terms of developing allowance policies.
As one person noted: "There has to be a participatory process in terms of developing allowance policies.
While it is recognised that trial registration databases and scientific journals can be restrictive in terms of word allowance, various strategies have been proposed to improve the reporting of interventions in the published trials, including an 'intervention bank' to include manuals and fidelity tools linked to trial registration numbers'.
One alternative approach is an import allowance requirement, whereby imports of highly carbon-intensive goods (in terms of their manufacture) must hold allowances for the U.S. cap-and-trade system, mirroring requirements on U.S. sources, if those imports come from countries which have not taken comparable climate policy actions.
