The EU executive in Brussels said on Wednesday that moves to reinstate the death penalty could incur curbs on Hungary's EU rights and entitlements.
Assistant treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced on Thursday that in next week's budget the government would cap the amount that public hospital staff and workers in the not-for-profit sector could claim in meals and entertainment entitlements.
Because the award is non-consolidated it will not count towards pension entitlements or shift pay and will be wiped away at the end of March 2016, meaning wages will go back to their April 2013 level.
Working age women have re-entered the labour market in greater numbers over recent years, partly in response to severe cuts in tax credit entitlements and other benefits affecting younger families and the equalisation of the pension age for women over 60.
Where hours are offered or taken away on the basis of reward or punishment, workers find themselves unable to exercise even their basic rights or access entitlements such as holiday and sick pay.
Being unable to deny a story that he had told colleagues he had scheduled a public event in Melbourne in order to justify claiming travel entitlements for a party fundraiser, Tony Abbott moved to change "the story" on Wednesday to specific actions his government was taking to increase counter-terrorism customs capacity at airports.
Which leads me to the conclusion that the reason coalition ministers don't mind slashing entitlements for disabled people, are quite happy to use them as guinea pigs for new benefits that don't work, and to chuck them at incompetents such as Atos, is because they couldn't care less.
While the other Delhi support staff received their redundancy entitlements after decades of service, Ramesh was classified as a household staff member which meant she missed out.
Ready For Warren, a campaign group which has urged the senator to run, said after Clinton's announcement on Sunday that the party needed "vigorous debate" on subjects such as entitlements, banking reform and workers' rights.
(No one in politics wants to get in a tangle on entitlements. It's considered the ultimate exercise in throwing stones in glass houses).
The next government could solve this by simplifying, consolidating and improving the existing legislation to clarify local authority responsibilities and individual entitlements to care and support".
