Capping redundancy entitlements – stalled The Coalition planned to cap work entitlements for workers employed by companies that go into receivership.
An improved understanding of differences in the outcomes by injury setting would enable workers compensation rehabilitation systems to further understand the importance of policies and practices beyond entitlement to workers compensation in improving recovery outcomes for those workers with work-related injury.
The commonwealth will be chasing up to $73m it will be forced to pay to cover the entitlements of almost 800 nickel workers who lost their jobs.
Employers gain a sense of entitlement: Workers are expected to enter jobs in a flawless, pick-and-mix package, without inconvenient individual glitches such as CV gaps due to a maternity leave, or skill gaps due to a less-than-perfect job fit.
At 12 months our study observed poorer outcomes for workers, which does not support the commonly-raised explanation of financial gain (consequent to different compensation entitlements between workers and non-workers) as the reason for poorer outcomes among those injured in a work setting.
For example, in countries such as Guatemala, Morocco, or Cameroun, over 60%% of workers do not have written contracts (ILO, 2016), making it difficult for them to claim any EPL entitlements even if the law in principle provides for them.
That assessment came even while Marchionne's rhetoric to the union was blunt: that members had to "shake off the idea of worker entitlement".
Far from being the problem, the EU's social model, as one of the few guarantors of worker rights and entitlements while keeping markets open, was part of the solution.
This concept of entitlement runs across workers, management and executives.
To win, Republican negotiators agreed to the kind of package of worker assistance, including a new health care entitlement, they had resisted in the past.
