In many countries, the formulas by which benefit generosity and eligibility are calculated tend to disadvantage workers with short employment spells.
Built upon the assumptions underlying the post-war employment model, eligibility criteria for social insurance benefits often disadvantage workers with short and interrupted work records (Berton et al. 2012; Clasen and Clegg 2011; Hinrichs and Jessoula 2012).
This has left software makers free to compete on features that ultimately serve to disadvantage workers, with little accountability.
While not every business, even not every big business, is in Washington to push policies that disadvantage workers and families, the sum total of the flood of business cash and lobbying in Washington honestly drowns out the voices of regular families on a day-to-day basis.
The rapid decline of our industrial strength, once called the "arsenal of democracy," can be attributed to bad trade policies that severely disadvantage our workers.
Draghi told the Guardian there should be a "more open, flexible, innovative and business-friendly society" that did not disadvantage new workers because companies were afraid of taking on new staff.
This is to the disadvantage of workers who would no doubt far prefer not to be treated so shamefully, and is a phenomenon reaching far beyond the fields of East Anglia, and not restricted to new arrivals.
"The black-market economy that relies upon illegal immigrant labor penalizes legal immigrants, exploits illegal aliens, unfairly taxes residents and places at a disadvantage legal workers and laborers," he said in an e-mail message.
Last week, a key congressional panel heard proposals to retain the "best and brightest" foreign students without disadvantaging U.S. workers.
Flexicurity or a well-managed form of labor market flexibility also means access to reasonable social benefits and avoiding a double disadvantage of workers with short employment spells who often not only lose their job but also lack proper access to unemployment insurance benefits.
