The term "work penalty" is correct and can be used in written English.
You could use it to refer to financial or other penalties incurred due to unfinished or inadequate work. For example, "The workers received an undeserved work penalty for submitting the project late."
The changes amount to a work penalty that he has introduced into the tax credit system.
Labour has branded the cuts a "work penalty" and compared their likely political impact to the poll tax.
But the work penalty shows it may at least be possible to begin unpicking their electoral coalition.
No wonder the government today stands accused of attempting to cover the impact of the work penalty.
"What's worse, millions more soon-to-be seniors in the baby boom generation could be hit by this work penalty if we don't change the law now".
Chris Leslie, the shadow chancellor, said Osborne is simply rebranding the minimum wage and will end up imposing a "work penalty" because workers will end up worse off with the freeze in tax credits.
The most exciting race so far in the Louis Vuitton Cup had it all: tacking and jibing duels, brilliant crew work, penalties and contact between 70-foot-long carbon fiber yachts.
They led by 10 after a quarter of an hour, courtesy of one of those guess-work penalties at the scrum that should not be allowed to generate points, and a stroke of genius that very much should be.
Has our familiarity with illegal working conditions (eg a daughter working without penalty rates; a friend working for "cash in hand") inured us to its toxic consequences?
For that to work, the penalties for noncompliance would need to be stiff.
But in these works, a penalty or Lagrange function is always used to test the acceptability of the iterates.
