BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Welfare
- the physical and mental well-being of employees, and the provision of help for those in need of assistance. Welfare embraces: physical working conditions, such as hygiene, sanitation, temperature, humidity, ventilation, lighting, physical comfort, and refreshments; occupational health or wellness promotion; counseling and advice on personal problems, such as bereavement, drug abuse, or stress; and working time, covering matters such as hours of work, rest periods, paid vacation, and shiftwork. Employee assistance programs are a modern form of welfare policy, although not common outside the United States.
Wiktionary Definition for: Welfare
- health, happiness and prosperity; contentment
- aid, provided by a government, etc. to people in need, especially financial aid
Additional Resources
- Welfare stalled.(Slants & Trends)(Brief Article)
- WELFARE STALLED--With welfare reform still stalled in the Senate, the 1996 law has been given yet another three-month lease on life. Under the latest extension bill, S. 2231, welfare programs will continue through June 30, giving the Senate more time WELFARE STALLED--With welfare reform still stalled...
- Research articles 2004-04-26
- Child Welfare: HHS Could Play a Greater Role in Helping Child Welfare Agencies Recruit and Retain Staff.
- GAO-03-357 March 31, 2003 A stable and highly skilled child welfare workforce is necessary to effectively provide child welfare services that meet federal goals. This report identifies (1) the challenges child welfare agencies face in recruiting and retaining child welfare workers and supervisors, (2) how recruitment and retention...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- Work Over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law
- Work Over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law. By Ron Haskins, Hardcover/450 pages Brookings Institution Press First edition. 2006/ISBN: 0-8157-3508-3 List Price $21.50 Ten years ago, President Clinton, backed by a bipartisan Congress, signed historic legislation designed to end "welfare as we know it."...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- New pig welfare code and pig welfare regulations introduced.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-14 February 2003-UK Government: New pig welfare code and pig welfare regulations introducedC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02142003 A new pig welfare code is to be sent to all pig farmers following its successful passage through Parliament. The new,...
- Research articles 2003-02-14
- Beyond Medi-Cal: Health Insurance Coverage Among Former Welfare Recipients
- At its peak in early 1995, the welfare caseload in California reached approximately 2.7 million individuals. As of September 2001, fewer than 1.2 million Californians were receiving welfare. The unprecedented reduction in the welfare caseload has potentially serious consequences for health insurance coverage. While all welfare recipients are automatically covered...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Outsourcing Versus Foreign Direct Investment: A Welfare Analysis
- Foreign direct investment may not necessarily be the most welfare enhancing form of international investment. The host country may avail options like - Joint venture, technology licensing, franchising, outsourcing etc. A host country's choice of organizational form should depend on its growth and welfare effects. This paper compares the welfare...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Welfare Implications Of Outsourcing Versus FDI In The Host Country
- Foreign Direct Investment FDI may not necessarily be the most welfare enhancing form of international sourcing. The host country may avail options like - Joint venture, technology licensing, franchising, outsourcing etc. A host country's choice of organizational form should depend on its growth and welfare effects. This paper compares the...
- White papers 2006-01-04
- Congress's welfare cheats. (Congressional Republicans' 1995 welfare reform bill)(Editorial)
- The Republican-controlled Congress's effort to restructure the US welfare system includes several laudable idea, such as devolving the power over welfare to the states, but the 1995 bill lacks funds to implement changes. It makes no economic sense to reduThe Republican-controlled Congress's effort to restructure the US welfare system includes...
- Research articles 1995-10-28
- Answering to a new bottom line: welfare dept. hires consultants to help shift focus to jobs. (Cuyahoga County, OH)
- As it begins the business of helping 27,000 adults get off welfare before their benefits expire, Cuyahoga County is working to make its welfare system run more like a business. Signs that a business mindset is taking hold at the county welfare departmAs it begins the...
- Research articles 1997-10-13
- The welfare gap. (Republican Senate has a welfare-reform that will appease the Clinton administration)(Brief Article)
- END welfare as we know it, pledged Bill Clinton as a candidate for the presidency. Three years later, that promise steps closer to reality. After a deadlocked summer, the Republican Senate has cobbled together a welfare-reform plan that Mr Clinton's WhEND welfare as we know it, pledged...
- Research articles 1995-09-23
- Swiss worlds of welfare.
- Are there different worlds of welfare in Swiss cantons, analogous to different national welfare state regimes? Are the welfare regimes made up of functionally related sub-regimes in the field of employment, education, taxation and social security, as argued in recent analyses of 'varieties of capitalism'? And can the variations between...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Stimulus package a gift for big business. (Financial Update).(corporate welfare)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
- The good news is that the Bush administration is attempting to cut back corporate welfare. The bad news is that under the Bush administration, corporate welfare is burgeoning out of control. What we have here is a definitional problem. The Washington, ...
- Research articles 2001-11-19
- Family matters in welfare reform: while welfare-reform legislation has led to reductions in unemployment and child poverty, some opponents are turning a cold shoulder to pro-marriage proposals
- Five years after Bill Clinton capitulated to Republican demands and signed on to watershed welfare-reform legislation, policy wonks, pro-family activists and politicians waging war on the welfare state have reason to celebrate as millions of former welfare recipients have joined the workforce. Now, as the United States begins to pull...
- Research articles 2002-03-11
- President Clinton Shines Spotlight On Fleet Bank's Welfare-to-Work Efforts; Bank President To Speak At White House Event On Moving People To Work From Welfare
- BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 25, 1999--Robert J. Higgins, president and chief operating officer of Fleet Financial Group Inc., will join President Clinton today at the White House to highlight Fleet's successful welfare-to-work program. Fleet is among 10,000 companies currently participating in The Welfare to Work Partnership, a nationwide effort designed to move...
- Research articles 1999-01-25
- Moderate Senate Welfare Plan Offers Hope For Low-Income Families; Principles Signal Step In Right Direction, But Improvements Needed
- WASHINGTON, May 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a major development in the debate over welfare reform reauthorization, Senators Breaux, Snowe, Hatch, Jeffords and others unveiled principles for bi-partisan welfare reform legislation today. Deepak Bhargava, DirecWASHINGTON, May 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a major development in the debate over welfare...
- Research articles 2002-05-02
- DESPITE DEAL, STATE WELFARE PAYMENTS MAY BE CUT.
- WASHINGTON -- Citing plummeting welfare rolls and bulging state coffers, Republicans in Congress are looking for ways to reduce welfare payments to states despite a 1996 deal with governors not to change financing levels for five years. Defending WASHINGTON -- Citing plummeting...
- Research articles 1999-08-09
- TJX Cos. Pledges to Hire 5,000 Welfare Recipients within Three Years.(Originated from The Boston Globe)
- May 21--As part of a White House initiative that seeks to provide jobs for people on welfare, the TJX Cos. has pledged to hire 5,000 welfare recipients by the year 2000. May 21--As part of a White House initiative that seeks to...
- Research articles 1997-05-21
- Congress will keep welfare funding as-is.
- Congress will keep welfare funding as-is...$16.5 billion annually in block grants to states...when it renews '96 welfare reform law in '02. Congress will keep welfare funding as-is...$16.5 billion annually in block grants to states...when it renews '96 welfare reform law in '02.
- Research articles 2001-11-16
- Abusive welfare benefit trusts targeted by IRS.(United States Internal Revenue Service)(Brief Article)
- Abusive welfare benefit trusts are being targeted by the IRS. Employers use welfare trusts to provide various benefits to workers... medical insurance, disability protection and life insurance coverage. Abusive welfare benefit trusts are being targeted by the IRS. Employers use welfare trusts to provide...
- Research articles 2003-04-25
- GAO releases child welfare disaster planning report
- The U.S. Government Accountability Office GAO released a report, Child Welfare: Federal Action Needed to Ensure States Have Plans to Safeguard Children in the Child Welfare System Displaced by Disasters. The report was conducted in response to the increasing number of natural disasters disrupting the availability of child welfare services....
- Research articles 2006-09-01
