Sentences with phrase «labour day in»

The origins of Labour Day in Canada can be traced back to April 14, 1872 when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union's strike for a 58 - hour work - week.

The Harvest Moon games project a fairly Japanese mentality that work — successful labour day in and day out — is its own zen - like reward, hard lives lived well.

May 1 is Labour Day in Belize, a unique holiday that begins with a formal speech by the Labour Minister and then continues with parades, rallies, and festive demonstrations across the country.

In summer (between Memorial Day in May and Labour Day in September), a few dollars allows you an all - day ride on the Big Bay Shuttle, with eight stops along the bay front from Harbor Island to the South Embarcadero (in town); you get on, you get off, where and when you want.

This annual event is attended by hundreds of people and is the biggest event happening on Labour Day in Campbell River each year.

The last FCW happened during Labour Day in September (see Story).

The first Monday in September is almost upon us which means the Labor Day long weekend (or Labour Day in Canada) is just around the corner.

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They are made to silence the objections of organized labour and make the government of the day appear as if it's acting in the national interest.

Organized as a follow - up to January's Women's March on Washington, the one - day walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear rday walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear rDay Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear red.

So if you have a work habit you've been meaning to start with the best of intentions — getting in earlier, whipping your inbox into shape, getting up from your desk for an hourly stretch — the day after Labour Day is a better time to start than moday after Labour Day is a better time to start than moDay is a better time to start than most.

A fun way to celebrate Labour Day is to think about all the ways in which robots are making human jobs and tasks easier or better.

And in September, at about the first Wednesday after Labour Day, they «go haywire,» as parents with young kids scramble to readjust to a new school year.

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.

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

MSCI's broadest index of Asia - Pacific shares outside Japan were down 0.2 percent though most markets in the region are closed for a Labour Day holiday.

With banks refusing in recent days to accept the latest restructuring plan, May's senior ministers met around the clock, under pressure from the Labour Party and unions not to use taxpayer money to prop up the failing company.

Though thick, lavishly illustrated Sunday papers became popular in the United States during the late 19th century as a form of weekend leisure, religious pressure to ban labour and trade on Sundays assured that Saturday papers remained the more popular weekend reading in Canada — something cemented by the passing of the federal Lord's Day Act in 1906.

The government is considering criminalising abuse of Parliamentary candidates during campaigning and elections, after Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the days leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016.

From the earliest days of European settlement of the Pilbara in the 1860's, Yindjibarndi people provided labour for the pearlers of Cossack and the owners of the sheep stations.

There is a limit to how many hours there are in a day that employees can work, how low the unemployment rate can go on a sustained basis, how high the labour force participation rate can rise, and how large the proportion of working - age people within the total population can be.

The term originated to rebut the idea that reducing the number of hours employees are allowed to labour during the working day would lead to a reduction in unemployment.

A rise in energy stocks led by BP, boosted by strong first - quarter results, kept Britain's FTSE afloat on Tuesday while most European bourses were closed for Labour Day.

In a statement after the end of the two - day policy meeting, the central bank said, «The stance of monetary policy remains accommodative, thereby supporting strong labour market conditions and a sustained return to 2 per cent inflation.»

I'm proud to say that the Canadian Labour Congress and affiliated Unions established the annual day of remembrance right here in Canada in 1985.

Did you know, Labour Day was once a 7 - day public holiday known as the third Golden Week in ChiDay was once a 7 - day public holiday known as the third Golden Week in Chiday public holiday known as the third Golden Week in China?

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters)- A rise in energy stocks led by BP, boosted by strong first - quarter results, kept Britain's FTSE afloat on Tuesday while most European bourses were closed for Labour Day.

Everyone who worked on building the dyke was paid 300 Kwachas per day for their labour, and representatives from every family in the affected villages had to be involved.

He told Premier 150 people attended the group's mass in Brighton on the first day of the Labour Conference, but it has been the subject of some snide jokes within the party.

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all they work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor they maidservant, nor they cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.

The story Jesus told reflects the conditions of first - century Palestine and we are to assume, as his hearers certainly would have assumed, (that the labourers hired later in the day expected to receive a part of a denarius, a denarius being a regular payment for one day's labour.

Without the emergency intervention that followed, the baby would have suffocated in the birth canal in which he was trapped and I would have bled to death, which would at least have killed me within hours rather than over several excruciatingly painful days in the case of the obstructed labour.

I'll be honest, having run up to labour at a fast pace in a slightly stressful environment with a house that was still a building site from a long overdue reno project as we left... a long night's sleep and nothing happening for a day wasn't sad.

Blueberry season is in full swing in Newfoundland, and Labour Day weekend always reminds me of blueberry picking.

Even if it makes no difference to your labour, there's no harm in eating them and just 6 a day could make a difference.

Mussolini knew it in 1938, and the Argentina military junta knew it in 1978; England went out of the 1970 World Cup, and days later the ruling Labour government surprisingly lost a general election.

If you look at the performance last night you can believe that we are a match for anyone; far removed from the laboured display (especially in the second half) against lowly Sunderland just a few days ago.

Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, has tabled an Early Day Motion (used by MPs to publicise a particular cause and to gain support in the Commons) calling on the government to remove vulnerable road users from the reforms.

It's cheaper to let someone labour for days in a corner than to monitor her closely and intervene.

Ha stayed in labour all day.

Know I'm 20 years too late with these questions, but how is she in labour for about two days, with about three contractions, and also gets to 10 cm without much pain?

Many hospitals are bending over backwards these days to try and meet women's needs (c.d players in the labour suites, birthing balls / bars / pools / showers, electric oil burners, electric «candles», double beds for couples to share, etc.).

Instead of spending the whole day wondering if I was in labour, I had a lazy morning while Leo was in play school and then we spent the whole afternoon making monster crafts and playing with play sand at the kitchen table.

So, how can a parent negotiate the need for supplementation if baby's weight drops rapidly in those few days due to possible due to the shedding of all that fluid during that labour?

We showed up in labour with our first baby just as the hospital cafeteria was closing, and delivered before it opened again the next day.

Last year on Valentine's Day I was 41 weeks pregnant and in the very, very early stages of labour.

I'm 41wks today and hoping my baby comes out naturally before my induction that's scheduled in 3 days time... I'm also experiencing no symptoms of labour T.T good luck to all the mamas!

You'll get dozens of fresh ideas on how to cope with the reality of labour from this and many other sections of the book, which will help you on the day whether your birth is easy as falling off a log, much tougher than you expected, or somewhere in between.

... I really emphasize very strongly with my clients about how to manage their early labours and sleep in early labour and I encourage them to consider Gravol [Dimenhydrinate]... for sleep, even like I said certainly the first night if they're starting early labour at night and even sometimes the next day like late in the day or early in the evening, if they're taking their time.

There were no differences between groups for fetal loss equal to / after 24 weeks and neonatal death, induction of labour, antenatal hospitalisation, antepartum haemorrhage, augmentation / artificial oxytocin during labour, opiate analgesia, perineal laceration requiring suturing, postpartum haemorrhage, breastfeeding initiation, low birthweight infant, five - minute Apgar score less than or equal to seven, neonatal convulsions, admission of infant to special care or neonatal intensive care unit (s) or in mean length of neonatal hospital stay (days).

I've been in labour for two days with no sleep, we must be nearly there.