Sentences with phrase «labour code]»

From the United States to Singapore, Germany to Kuwait, there are ample precedents to show how a large influx of low - skill, temporary workers can warp an entire country's labour market.

Former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron promised to restore cuts to the size of Britain's armed forces seen under Labour.

Mexico's labour costs are cheaper, and the quality of goods produced in the country has improved.

But the entire country's labour market suffers.

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.»

«So no more hand - holding with Donald Trump - a Labour government will conduct a robust and independent foreign policy made in London.

Coles said the time was right for a «new team» to lead Unifor and fight back against what he called attacks on labour by the federal government.

No dollar figure has been attached to the costs that will be borne by the brands, but according to labour advocacy groups they will be apportioned based on the amount of business each does in Bangladesh.

Loblaw signed on May 14th, getting in just under the May 15th deadline set by labour organizers.

The Labour leader has been a lifelong opponent of military intervention overseas.

«Almost everybody in the labour law business — whether they are on the union or management side of things — views this recent run of events as highly unusual.

The Canadian Labour Congress welcomed Ontario's program and the fact that other provinces could potentially join it in the future.

Lighthizer has also said he's seeking policies that lift Mexican wages to discourage cheap - labour outsourcing; he has mentioned, as one example, reforms to collective - bargaining procedures.

Its 32 stories — among them offerings from Alice Munro, John Cheever, Junot Diaz and Joyce Carol Oates — delve into all aspects of what we do for our paycheques, with work defined broadly «as labour, as chores, as business, as duty, as habit,» inside the workplace and out.

The opposition Labour Party, which requested the figures under freedom of information, said they showed the government's «utter failure» in ensuring wealthy people and large corporations pay as much tax as they should.

Collective bargaining is a necessary process in determining the terms of employment the labour market will bear.»

The temporary foreign workers issue is just another example of why Canada needs to keep better labour market data.

But too much of that is due to people dropping out of the workforce altogether (because the job market is * that * good): now at 63.2 %, the labour force participation rate has been catapulted all the way back to that which last prevailed in 1978.

Fuelled by a low peso and cheap labour costs, Mexico's booming manufacturing industry has already overtaken Canada's in terms of the dollar value of exports to the U.S. Indeed, Canada is contending with more than just low oil prices.

Those findings can't come soon enough for Emily Norgang, a senior researcher at Canadian Labour Congress, an umbrella organization for labour unions and other interest groups.

«While the matter is before the CIRB, there can not be a work stoppage,» [Labour Minister Lisa] Raitt said.»

To bring in a foreign national on a work permit, an employer must typically obtain a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA), which was introduced in 2014.

Any increase in TFWs in Southwestern Ontario should be seen as a surprise, as the labour market has been in decline in the region over the last decade, with London, Windsor and Hamilton experiencing significant declines in their full - time employment rates:

Raise interest rates in the U.S. and you could kill the recovery and exacerbate the problem of long - term unemployment, with lasting effects of labour productivity, economic growth and, yes, even government revenues.

More importantly, how much more would it cost if labour conditions were improved?

The second publicly available data set is the Employment and Social Development Canada's Labour Market Opinion Statistics.

Once that expired, he needed a temporary work permit to remain in the country, which required him to obtain a Labour Market Opinion.

«Labour costs are a big factor in day - to - day profits,» he says.

Labour's shadow transport secretary, Andy McDonald, accused the government of «taking people for a ride.»

The restaurant encourages diners to come up with their own requests, things that might be too labour intensive or difficult to prepare at home.

Beset by labour disputes and an inability to adapt to changing markets, the country's largest firms merged in 1968 as British Leyland before being nationalized in 1975.

TORONTO — The rise of so - called precarious employment in Canada — mainly work in the services and retail sectors — has brought with it some questionable employer practices that have employees stressed out and labour activists fuming.

The House of Commons is set to approve the measures with a big majority after the pacifist leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would allow his lawmakers a free vote, rather than impose a party whip.

We then use that to build out two additional scenarios: one assuming a doubling of the current minimum wage plus factoring in the cost of fire and building safety improvements based on data from the Worker Rights Consortium; and another using a «living wage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demands.

European equities opened slightly above the flatline Tuesday though most bourses are closed for the Labour Day public holiday.

His body of work on the effect of immigration, education, technology and the role of labour unions on employment and wages makes him a timely pick for the 2013 award, when so much of the popular discussion is on the decline of middle - class labour.

It needs a high - profile victory to reverse the steady erosion of organized labour's influence.

The government presented various options on how to fix the troubled program during a closed - door meeting Thursday with stakeholders who included business representatives and labour union officials.

As a condition of receiving taxpayer - funded bailouts, governments ordered GM, Chrysler and their unions to bring labour costs in line with Toyota, Honda and Nissan.

There were search engines before it — all Sergei Brin and Larry Page did was come up with a particularly effective algorithm that eliminated human labour from the equation.

«When you change your trading relationship and population movements with the world, it has to change everything from the cost and supply of labour, the cost of good (exchange rate), the availability of market access (in and out), government finances (fiscal policy) or as we know very well monetary policy.

TMS is focused on the Australian offshore oil and gas support industry and was acquired by labour hire company Integrated Group in 2002.

Attracted by a combination of low corporate taxes and inexpensive labour, big multinationals like Dell and Intel set up shop on the Emerald Isle.

«Their labour force is getting old and shrinking,» says Katsenelson.

With the ongoing liquidation of the Canadian Fund and the loss of Ontario and federal tax credits, how much remains of the dream of labour - sponsored venture capital in English Canada?

According to Statistics Canada, the employment services industry grew from $ 8.3 billion in 2009 to $ 11.5 billion in 2012; and while this category includes everything from executive headhunters to day labour, other data suggests it's temp work driving the increase.

The Conservative leader has been losing ground to her Labour opponent in the past few weeks.

(Note: multifactor productivity, or MFP, is commonly seen as measure of technical progress — the increase in output that can not be explained by the accumulation of labour and capital inputs.

Indeed, the once thriving labour - sponsored funds sector seems to be teetering on the verge of oblivion — a good thing, in the eyes of critics who claim it puts unsophisticated investors at risk and skews Canada's venture capital market toward technology sector long shots with little chance of payoff.

«Labour funds, at one time, grew to provide half the venture capital in the country,» he says.