Sentences with phrase «government labour force»

Methodology: Examination of data from the government Labour Force Survey, and two government surveys which are restricted access - the 2001 Census micro-data (the CAMS) and the National Pupil Database.

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How is it, then, that when allegations arose that a Canadian mine may have been built with forced labour, the government's response was largely confined to drawing up «media lines» and «talking points?»

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

He noted the federal government's budget last month made commitments aimed at increasing the labour - force participation of women.

Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Quebec and the federal government (for areas of federal labour - force jurisdiction) are at various stages of rolling out PRPPs.

The government's election commitment to allow families with children under age 18 to split income would actually encourage a reduction in labour force participation.

In the Council's pre-budget submission to this committee we urged the government to boost Canadian productivity by increasing female labour force participation, supporting women in STEM, enabling seniors to work for longer and helping Canadians navigate the changing job market.

A Labour MP has urged the Government to formally recognise the deaths of millions of people in Ukraine in the 1930s because of «forced famine» as an act of genocide.

In the 1960s, the Harold Wilson Labour government forced secondary schools to become comprehensive and the Catholic system changed in a matter of years almost as if going comprehensive was something to be done «in the spirit of Vatican II».

«Now the Bribery Act is in force it's essential for the government to give the Serious Fraud Office the political and financial backing it needs to investigate and prosecute,» Labour MP Hugh Bayley told politics.co.uk.

In his response to the verdict, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: «The Government has today been forced by the Supreme Court to accept the sovereignty of Parliament.

That explains yesterday's hubristic comments from Alex Salmond in declaring he will be able to force Labour to commit to spending that will benefit Scotland in the party's first Budget as a minority government.

Raising the electoral mountain Labour would need to climb to form a Government, exercising minority or coalition rule let alone governing with a majority, is an unexpected gift for the fifth largest force in UK politics: Momentum.

Thus Conservative MPs - led by Claire Perry and backed by Labour - have forced the government to propose website blocking as part of the armoury for the regulator.

At present, there are two principal measures of unemployment used by the Government: the International Labour Organisation (ILO) measure (the UK's version being known as the Labour Force Survey or LFS unemployment); and the Claimant Count.

The Labour Party manifesto in 1997 had proposed to remove all of the hereditary peers from the house, but in a departure from the Salisbury - Addison convention the Lords objected and prevailed, forcing the government to retain 92 of them.

A verbal assault against armed forces personnel and their relatives could become a criminal offence if Labour gets into government.

The Conservative rebels, joined by Labour MPs, forced the government to abandon the bill even though it had been part of the coalition agreement.

an entirely obstreperous Lib Dem Party might force Labour to form a grand coalition with the Conservatives or at least agree to dissolve the government or lose all credibility themselves.

An abstention by Labour would have prevented the PM from reaching a majority of two - thirds of all MPs, forcing her into the awkward position of taking the second path to an early election envisaged by the Act — a parliamentary vote of no confidence in her government.

Ed Milband presented his party as a force for fiscal responsibility, promising that Labour's manifesto contained no unfunded pledges and that a Miliband - led government would eliminate the UK's budget deficit during the next parliament.

When the Tories got destroyed in 1997 (with more votes than Labour got in 2010) Tory activists didn't plan to force the elected government to back down from pursuing its agenda.

Cameron refused, saying it was a matter for the RBS board, leading Miliband to announce that Labour would force a Commons vote on whether or not the government should block it.

The government wants to create a US - style labour market, where because virtually no welfare safety net exists, unemployment bears more directly on the working class, forcing people like lone parents to work for extremely low wages and without employment protection.

If Labour goes ahead with its plan to argue for more time and oppose the government motion, and if three dozen Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers join forces, then, with the support of at least some of the minor parties, a government defeat or a pyrrhic win is far from impossible.

After all, Conservative governments went into both the 1992 and 1997 general elections by announcing sharp expenditure restraint for the following Parliament, thus forcing the Labour opposition to either reject or accept those overall spending targets.

Arguments over the legal basis of moves to force a living wage on the private sector appeared to form part of a broader government move to distance Whitehall from Labour's ideas.

It includes a cap on welfare which Conservatives in government hope will force Labour to accept spending on benefits must be more closely controlled in the future.

But the government could lose the vote on a «programme motion», which limits debate on the bill in the Commons to 14 days, because Labour will join forces with as many as 100 Tory rebels.

Although government evidence shows that 370,000 people who came to the country as foreign nationals are claiming benefits, Miliband pointed out that proportionately fewer migrants were claiming benefits than in the UK labour force.

If this is not possible, then a Labour - led coalition with the Liberals would be preferable to a Tory government or a Tory - Lib coalition — for the same reason that this gives the working class a slightly better relationship of forces within which to resist the assault on its living standards which will be unleashed by any government arising from the current election.

Will the resources allocated to this task be greater or less than those allocated by the previous Labour Government in the training of Colonel Gaddafi's forces, which enabled him better to repress his own people?

What influence can my right hon. Friend bring to bear on the Welsh Local Government Minister to force Labour - run and independent - run authorities across Wales to follow their lead and do the same?

Mr Hague has been critical of the Labour government's stance on collusion since the high court upheld claims by Binyam Mohamed, a former Guantanamo detainee who was tortured by US forces in Pakistan and Morocco.

Ed Miliband's decision to launch 18 - month policy units suggested he believed the coalition would last the full five years, but the recent public split at the top of the government has forced some Labour figures to reassess their timetable.

Again, if the Conservatives were only a little way short (and the recent surge to the Lib Dems may so decimate Labour that the Tories do better in target seats than expected), they could try to mimic the final years of John Major's government, when the Conservative PM was forced to rely on the votes of Ulster Unionists.

All of this can make Labour stronger, and by working together we can be the best campaigning force in Britain and defeat this ideologically extreme rightwing Tory government in 2020.

Forced to choose, UKIP supporters would, by three - to - one, prefer a Tory - lead Cameron government to a Miliband - led Labour government.

The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.

Attempt to curb ability of foreign criminals to resist deportation defeated, as government is forced to rely on Labour support

The Lib Dems» expectation and hope was to repeat the experience of Labour in Churchill's government, which demonstrated to the electorate that Labour was a credible governing force.

Clegg's hopes of reforming the Lords ran into trouble when the government was forced to withdraw a «programme motion» that would have set a timetable for the Lords reform bill, to avert defeat in the face of an alliance of Labour MPs and Tory rebels.

[53] By 1977 by - election losses and defections to the breakaway Scottish Labour Party left Callaghan heading a minority government, forced to do deals with smaller parties in order to govern.

No 10 had hoped to reduce the rebellion when the government announced the withdrawal of a «programme motion» earlier in the day when it became clear that Labour would join forces with the rebels to reject the measure.

To no one's surprise the Blair - led Tories defeat Labour in 2010 but, without an absolute majority are forced to form a coalition government with the support of the Liberal Democrats.

After 10 years of unsustainable increases in public spending, the Labour Government has now been forced by the state of the public finances to adopt exactly this policy for the three years until 2010 - 11.

A bill to part - privatise the Royal Mail had been due to go before the Commons earlier this year but an extensive campaign by Labour backbenchers forced the government to back down.

Labour is planning to use «moral pressure» as its main weapon to force the government to reveal more about its plan for Brexit, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said.

'' «Our appeal is to all MPs of conscience: join us, vote against these unfair and unworkable changes and force the government to think again,» he told delegates at the Scottish Labour party's conference in Oban.

Speaking on the eve of Labour's Autumn conference the East Renfrewshire MP, heralded by many in Labour as one of Ed Miliband's most reliable sentinels, said: «This Government has not prioritised armed forces education, particularly in the army where 50 per cent of recruits have a reading age 7 — 11.»