He has given gay couples the same pension, welfare and inheritance rights as married heterosexuals.
Byrd and Taft), Congress specifically rejected proposals that would have rendered those demands illegal either by providing that union proposals concerning pension welfare benefits were not mandatory subjects of bargaining, or by prohibiting all such funds even indirectly established or managed by a union.
Most Europeans now accept, as a general proposition, that if their economies are to return to faster growth, and unemployment is to be cut, their bloated pension, welfare and health-care systems, and their rigid labour-market regulations, all need fairly radical reform.
And, second, if it looks like a giveaway, it is almost certainly going to be offset by savings elsewhere (possibly from the welfare budget after 2015, because Osborne will today be announcing the welfare cap he is going to impose restricting the amount a future government can spend on non-pension welfare spending).
Nor, for that matter, was there much substance on the environment, Europe, education, pensions, welfare or the economy.
To reduce debt, the government is cutting pensions, welfare spending and public services, and has said it will eliminate 310,000 public-sector jobs by 2015.
Shake-ups in pensions, welfare payments and farm subsidies are also long overdue, but they may be blocked by the two populist parties in the coalition.
More accountability, power and responsibility in tax affairs for Holyrood – though "the cost of pensions, welfare and health care should be pooled and shared, funded from UK taxes".
At the end of last year Germany squeaked through most of its so-called Agenda 2010 reforms to pensions, welfare benefits and labour markets.Yet in all three countries the reforms have been far too modest.
Taking together the tax payments, spending power, caring responsibilities and volunteering effort of people aged 65-plus, it calculates that they contribute almost £40bn more to the UK economy than they receive in state pensions, welfare and health services.
France's new revolutionaries, those who have been raising Cain over Nicolas Sarkozy's modest proposal to raise the age of retirement by two years, appear to believe that public money is printed in heaven and will rain down for ever like manna to pay for pensions, welfare, medical care and impenetrable avant-garde movies.
