I would defend the principle
of conditionality for two reasons (I also do think having a job is an important source of power, and not just because of the income it brings).
This sounds like quite a strong form of
conditionality for those deemed capable of working.
Final decisions on compliance
with conditionality and changes to its content are taken by the Council (Art. 7 (5) and (7) Regulation 472 / 2013 / EU).
In light of the above, Section II of this Chapter provides a succinct overview of the evolution of human rights
conditionality in EU external relations and the evolution of the Eastern Partnership.
Apart from its economic «strictness» financial
assistance conditionality has, thus, gradually become «stricter» also in legal and institutional terms.
Those who stand to be directly affected
by conditionality rules should have a much greater voice in determining their content.
Punitive
conditionality policies feed off an «us and them» perception of welfare: they — «the benefit scroungers» — get it, while we — the «respectable taxpayers» — don't.
Proceed cautiously with their plans to impose strict
conditionality rules for care workers on zero - hours contracts who claim universal credit
Despite the rhetoric of democracy there is a lack of transparency m discussions of officials with the IMF / WB authorities and their decisions
regarding conditionalities often imposed on the debtor countries without clear exposure even to Parliament and its select committees, much less to the general public affected by them.
«The Kinship Care Alliance warmly welcomes the announcement by Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform, of a year's exemption from
conditionality under Universal Credit for grandparents, older siblings, aunts and uncles and other relatives and friends (kinship) carers who are taking on the responsibility for bringing up children who are unable to live with their parents.
Perhaps most painful is that because of the way funds (about $ 322m) returned from Switzerland were mishandled, we now have to
accept conditionalities before our stolen assets are even returned to us.»
Following the path beaten out by the Plain English Campaign (now in its 30th year) and their Golden Bull Awards, organisations such as the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) have been expressing their frustration at the proliferation of gobbledegook in public life.At the end of 2007, the LGA released a list of 100 words local authorities should not use, such
as conditionality, coterminosity and contestability.
The thinktank also warned that in -
work conditionality, whereby low - paid working UC claimants would be expected to prove to DWP officials they were seeking to earn more by working longer hours or taking a second job, as a condition of receiving the benefit, would be controversial.
Section V discusses whether these clauses have managed to tackle some of the existing challenges of human
rights conditionality, with a specific focus on monitoring and implementing mechanisms.
The
EU conditionality will be updated on a quarterly basis, and each EU review will be fully specified «in detail and timeline.»
[1] Some scholars claim that solidarity in EU migration policy should be interpreted restrictively in the sense that it is closely connected to the reciprocity and
conditionality principle.
Robert, my post didn't focus at all on the specific issues which arise in applying
tougher conditionality to those with disabilities.
This is a request for precisely the type of prediction -
based conditionality for decisions that is impossible to provide in the climate arena.
It said on Friday that it chose the Chinese consortium because it had more deal certainty and «
limited conditionality», reducing the «execution risk».
Incoherence and coherence are here clearly distinguished in concept from the contradictoriness or freedom from it which belong to logical inconsistency and consistency, even though an essential relationship of
mutual conditionality governs both senses.
Much discussion of
conditionality assumes that «contribution» — what we do to reciprocate — is the same as «work» which, in turn, is the same as «employment».
There are at least four key points around which left and right approaches to reciprocity — and
hence conditionality — differ.
So, to be true to itself, should the left just warmly
embrace conditionality and support the Coalition government's policies on this matter?
In a society with a lot of background injustice,
tighter conditionality risks weakening the bargaining power of disadvantaged workers and thereby compounding the injustice they suffer (as emphasised by Richard Seymour).
If not
through conditionality of membership prospects, the EU should be involved at least in a number of politically - related and politically - neutral questions, from education reform to public control for tender procedures and anti-corruption measures with detailed benchmarks.
Of course, it might still be true that on
balance conditionality is good for the welfare claimant - that's an empirical question, obviously.
There's also an issue about choice
vs conditionality - e.g. Purnell's welfare reforms are the exact opposite of using choice to increase the power of the poorest.
«We will be taking a tougher approach to conditionality [for benefit claimants].
These proposals are emblematic of a social security system in which eligibility continues to be further and further restricted, and
conditionality further and further increased.
Benefits conditionality is one of the scandals of our age, and extending it to people already in work - so they must try and find more work or lose their financial support - is a political and practical dead - end.
We've done this in welfare, for instance through the introduction of
greater conditionality — meaning that those who are out of work must show they are taking meaningful steps to find employment, in return for getting their benefits.
The Parliament also approved so -
called conditionality rules: If fishermen are caught infringing CFP rules — for instant using illegal gear, overfishing, or illegally discarding low - value fish — they will not receive subsidies.
Meeting new people at rock concerts is easy because rock music has always been music of free and uninhibited people who don't care about stereotypes and
different conditionalities.
It was decided to accelerate action on enhancing the pre-2020 actions like early ratification of the Kyoto Protocol second commitment period, revisiting of targets and
conditionalities associated with it and provision of finance, technology and capacity building support by developed countries to developing countries in consonance with Warsaw decisions.
And the ECB announced that it will require the implementation of «strict and
effective conditionality» in order to activate both its Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) Programme and its Quantitative Easing (QE) policy (Art. 2 (3 (d) Decision 2015/10).