Sentence examples for sanctions targets from inspiring English sources
Staff who failed to meet sanctions targets each month were threatened with disciplinary action, he claims.
The PCS disputes the Department of Work and Pensions' (DWP) claim that sanctions targets do not exist and that sanctions are only imposed as a "last resort".
It says the emails reveal how staff are pressurised to meet sanctions targets, seemingly regardless of whether the penalty is appropriate.
Stephen Timms, Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, said the admission that officials fabricated quotes should lead to sanctions targets for Jobcentre staff to be scrapped.
MPs heard evidence from the PCS union that job centre staff were threatened with performance reviews if they did not instigate sufficient sanctions on claimants, and that managers drew up sanctions targets for staff, a claim the DWP denied.
Jobcentres, we heard, allegedly harrass vulnerable jobseekers, "tripping them up" so they can stop their benefits and hit management-imposed sanctions targets (or as the Department for Work and Pensions would have it, "expectations").
The additional financial sanctions target 20 new individuals, including eight officials previously identified by the European Union.
The sanctions, targeting Russian banks, energy companies and arms makers, were tightened up in September 2014.
An important case in point is the sanctions targeting Iran's civil aviation industry.
Subsequent Executive orders have imposed additional sanctions targeting, among others, the President of Syria.
See articleThe United States Congress voted in favour of sanctions targeting members of Venezuela's government.
