The charity is now calling on the government to ensure that "as an absolute minimum" parents who are asked to sign voluntary accommodation agreements receive access to legal advice equivalent to entitlement when a local authority is considering applying to court for a care order.
Cubbie is licensed to take 460,000 megalitres, the equivalent of all irrigation entitlements downstream in north-western NSW, for its cotton farms.
In this study we hypothesised there would be no difference in outcomes by injury setting for workers within New Zealand's universal rehabilitation and compensation context as the entitlement for compensation is equivalent regardless of injury setting.
This paper examines whether or not differences in vocational, disability, functional and psychological recovery outcomes exist 3- and 12-months after injury between participants who sustained an injury while engaged in work and participants injured in other non-work settings when entitlement to earnings-related compensation is equivalent.
Rather than looking at what profit a struggling sole trader actually makes, the new system simply assumes that they bring home at least the equivalent 35 hours at the minimum wage, and calculates entitlement on that basis.
But 100 years ago, when Henry Ford paid his factory workers the equivalent of $15 per hour, nobody was accused of entitlement — it was just good business.
The model base values assume that each member of staff works on average 220 days per year, equivalent to a five day working week plus holiday entitlement.
The job pays £20,228.16 a year for 39 hours a week, the equivalent of just under £10 an hour, as well as "company pension, generous holiday entitlement, training and development".
The staggering sums pumped into entitlement programmes (Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) increase every year on the accounting equivalent of cruise control, with no need for a vote.
