workfare

work·fare

(wûrk′fâr′)

A form of welfare in which capable adults are required to perform work, often in public-service jobs, as a condition of receiving aid.

[work + (wel)fare.]

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workfare

(ˈwɜːkˌfɛə)

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a scheme under which the government of a country requires unemployed people to do community work or undergo job training in return for social-security payments

[C20: from work + (wel)fare]

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work•fare

(ˈwʌrkˌfɛər)

n.

a government plan under which employable welfare recipients are required to accept public-service jobs or participate in job training.

[1965–70; work + (wel) fare]

Translations

allocation conditionnelle

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Still, we can look forward to new policies of tax cuts for the rich, less police, more sanctions against the unemployed, perhaps the workfare project could be a compulsory 60-hour week,where job seekers have to pick weeds up, as well as search for jobs.

Sad and divided country we live in

THE Kogi State Youth Employment and Social Support Operation (YESSO) has commenced the implementation of the Public Workfare (PWF) component of its programme for 4,404 youth in the state.

4,404 Kogi youths benefit from PWF programme

The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats.

The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats

The federal government offers additional funding to states that pledge to provide job training or workfare slots for every person facing the food stamp time limit.

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UNION members staged a protest in Huddersfield against the Government's Workfare programme - accusing it of "hounding and demonising the poor".

Workfare protest outside office

In Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India (NBER Working Paper No.

Workfare and human capital investment: evidence from India

Welfare reform in East Asia: Towards workfare? New York: Routledge, 2011.

Chan, C.K. & Kinglun Ngok (Eds). Welfare reform in East Asia: Towards workfare?

SIR - Caerphilly council is to be congratulated for not only being one of the first local authorities in Wales to commit to paying all its staff the Living Wage, thus ensuring more people are lifted out of relying on subsidies, but also committing to not using people provided under the UK Government's Workfare scheme.

Well done for backing fair pay

Yesterday, the Tories finally abandoned all pretence at chasing the youth vote - as David Cameron personally announced workfare for 18 to 21-year-olds.

GREY GAMBLE

I'D like to thank all the members of City of Cardiff Council who voted in support of the motion to ban 'workfare' - forced unpaid labour for benefit claimants - at the last Full Council meeting.

Workfare: punitive and draconian; FEEDBACK

Unite urged the bosses of charities not to take part in the programme, describing it as "workfare." Ministers pointed out there are more than 600,000 vacancies in the economy at any one time, saying that the new measures were intended to help unemployed people fill them.