There's their punitive work-for-the-dole schemes, omnibus bills to cut pensions and strip public services, and ongoing attacks on unions.
It appears some Democrats, who might have voted for the House bill, were repelled by a last-minute Republican amendment that added a punitive work requirement to food stamp eligibility rules.
A bipartisan coalition in the Senate favors re-enacting the welfare law with enough money for day care and other support for welfare recipients, and without the punitive work requirements and budget cuts in the House version.
At the same time, punitive work measures have been brought in, including a 580% increase in benefit sanctions against sick and disabled claimants between March 2013 and March 2014, and the acceleration of the highly controversial work capability assessment (WCA), sparking ongoing investigations into deaths and suicides of disabled people who had recently been found fit to work.
These results may be driven by a punitive work environment in healthcare in China.
All types of workers in hospitals in China may face a punitive work environment in their interactions either with managers, other co-workers and/or patients.
She rejected, however, Clarke's warning of the need to tackle the inflation in sentencing that was introduced under Michael Howard's punitive "prison works" policy and which has seen the jail population in England and Wales jump from 42,000 in 1990 to more than 85,000 this week.
The move has been branded as unnecessarily punitive by lawyers working on behalf of 600 mothers and children detained at the Karnes detention centre in Texas.
Pro-union nurses have received punitive assignments like working alone or only with anti-union co-workers, separated from other nurses.
He believes in using holistic and healing approaches rather than punitive actions when working with troubled youth and stresses the development of core community values including belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity.
