Sentences with phrase «labour government help»

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The review comes in the wake of a report from an expert panel the government struck last year that came up with 13 recommendations to help young Canadians get into and thrive in a changing labour market.

Just in from Paris, some fascinating quotables from the OECD: Governments must do more to help workers adapt to new global economy, says OECD Rather than seeing globalisation as a threat, OECD governments should focus on improving labour regulations and social protection systems to help people adapt to changing jGovernments must do more to help workers adapt to new global economy, says OECD Rather than seeing globalisation as a threat, OECD governments should focus on improving labour regulations and social protection systems to help people adapt to changing jgovernments should focus on improving labour regulations and social protection systems to help people adapt to changing job markets.

Canada's «Achilles heel» is the country's lagging labour productivity, and while governments can help turn that around, it's ultimately up to the private sector to boost it, Scotiabank CEO Brian Porter said Tuesday.

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 pre-election report from the Toronto Region Board of Trade says Ontario businesses face challenges including high labour costs and energy prices, and urges the next government to cut property taxes to help keep companies competitive.

I can't help feeling that if Labour had made progress on electoral reform over its 13 years of government.

Gordon Brown's «bigotgate» disaster helped bring down the New Labour government because by writing off Duffy, Brown was writing off millions of other voters too.

«Jeremy is owed a debt of gratitude for helping Labour to rediscover its radical routes, but we do need a new generation of Labour men and women to take this party forward, to get us ready for government once more.

The MGI said government policy and labour market practices helped determine the ultimate extent of flat or falling incomes.

They now feel moved to join and play their part in helping get Labour back in Government.

Before the meeting I sent Miliband a document I entitled «Two Lanes on the Third Way» pdf (95.5 kB), in which I argued that since «when we increase the capacity of others to help themselves, we also increase their capacity to help us» the Labour government should embrace proportional representation and economic democracy.

But he said that with increasing amounts of childcare being made available - there are now twice as many registered providers as nine years ago - the government should look at new ways to help lone parents rejoin the labour market.

That report had a major influence on the New Labour Government that followed in 1997 and I know that The Condition of Britain will make the same contribution: helping us to define a new approach to the challenges that confront the Country.

The fact that both Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown shared an enthusiasm for this idea helped to ensure that rather more of the Cook - Maclennan agenda of constitutional change was achieved through our co-operation than might have been expected from a Labour government with a large majority.

Moreover, the «real» living wage espoused by Labour can also rise if the government cuts the help it gives working families, for example through tax credits.

«Pressure groups, charities and businesses need to help Labour's front bench by arming them with the facts and campaign material to either embarrass the government, to secure concessions, or to inflict defeat.

A full turn - out of Labour MPs would have prevented the government from blocking amendment to help child refugees

Sir Rod Eddington reported to the previous Labour government that road pricing could help tackle congestion and in 2005 launched a «national debate» on road pricing, in order that it could be considered as one possible remedy.

But my fervent belief is that London's best hope for a better future is a Labour Government, so all of my campaigning energy is directed towards helping our Labour candidates in marginal seats win in 2015.

Labour has welcomed plans by the Bank of England to expand a lending scheme designed to help businesses and households, but says the government must do more.

Although he did not refer to Labour's chances of victory nationally, he did say that it was his duty to help provide a stable government.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats Housing Spokesperson, Peter Black, has called on the Welsh Labour Government to use the last week of the Assembly term to focus on tackling the growing gap between England and Wales in terms of help offered to first time buyers to get onto the housing ladder.

Mr Cameron had accused the Labour leader of being a «small «c» Conservative» for opposing the Government's plans, which he said would help many people escape their gloomy surroundings.

«Liberal Democrats are already taking action to help the lowest paid, by ensuring that over a million working people in Wales are now paying # 850 less in Income Tax than they were under the last Labour Government.

«Where Liberal Democrats in Government acted to help communities protect their valuable assets, Labour Ministers in Cardiff Bay spent years failing to act on this issue.

«Time and time again we hear from Labour Ministers that they're doing all they can to help our struggling steel industry, yet we've still seen no concrete action on the issues that lie in the Welsh Government's hands.

I am proud of the fact that the previous Labour Government, in their wisdom, gave me two separate national awards, one for my help to victim support and one for my campaign to challenge the state on unlawful hospital closures.

Under Labour small businesses would receive help should they want to export, and the government would be more involved in helping the British business around the world.

But with economic figures not exactly helping the Labour's leader previous mantra that the government's economic plans were a shambles, his latest attack is to attack the government for its complacency.

Another choice we've said we'd make differently is on taxation and tuition fees — while under the Conservative - led government banks are benefiting from a 5 per cent cut in corporation tax, — Labour thinks that money would be better used bringing down the cap on tuition fees, to help young people worried about the costs of going to university.

But actually in the last Labour government, increasing maternity leave, rights at work, introducing the national minimum wage disproportionately helped women and children, child poverty targets — things like that delivered actually tangible changes to peoples» lives.

He accused the Labour government of having helped to «inflate the debate» by suggesting concerns about immigration were racist.

«While a majority of all Defectors said Ed Miliband had helped push them to another party, the second biggest factor for those who had switched to the Conservatives was the fear that a Labour government would spend and borrow too much.

I have been privileged to work as PPS to four senior Labour ministers in four government departments and now feel that I can make my best contribution to the Labour effort in parliament by concentrating on helping, as a regular back - bencher, to show that Labour remains sound on matters of Defence.

The government has unveiled the first round of its three - year funding to help struggling businesses, but Labour has accused ministers of refusing to invest in growth.

People with something to say that might help explain why thirteen years of Labour government and unprecedented spending have had a minimal impact across estates in places like Tower Hamlets or Bradford.

Whilst we all have a responsibility to help maintain a unity of Labour purpose and provide a strong Labour voice at this time of unprecedented national uncertainty and lack of government leadership post-Brexit, you are clearly not prepared to accept the special responsibility you have in acting to meet these challenges.

Still waiting for a response to the points made against Corbyn, essentially that it doesn't help those in need of a Labour government to select an unelectable leader.

Having moved to Cardiff he now works in the Welsh Assembly, helping the Welsh Liberal Democrats hold the Welsh Labour Government to account.

«As part of the Welsh Lib Dem team in the Assembly, Cadan's help in holding the Welsh Labour Government to account is invaluable.

He said: «I am proud of what I have achieved over the last 12 years with the help and support of the Copeland community and the last Labour government.

«John's commitment to his constituents has been called into question, not by me or by Grant - but by the figures that highlight how since 1997 Labour have failed to help residents here get onto the housing ladder... This Government has abandoned its «heartland» supporters.

Bercow is supported by many Labour MPs for his often interventionist role in helping MPs hold the government to account, regularly allowing urgent questions — part of the reason why a number of Tories object to him.

At one point in proceedings, the Labour leader was helped by the prime minister declaring that «government has no money of its own».

A full turn - out of Labour MPs would have prevented the government from blocking efforts at helping child refugees, according to an early analysis of last night's Commons vote.

Events like these complement the main conference, open up politics and help develop a strong campaigning movement to elect a Labour government for the many not the few.»

It comes as a Labour MP and ex-minister Gisela Stuart, who helped draw up the original constitution, berated the government for not calling a referendum on the treaty.

«The Welsh Labour Government need to stop wasting money on this ineffective scheme and invest in apprenticeships and training, which will actually give young people professional skills and help them get on in life.

The only kind of consolation from this is that the last time a Labour Government tried this mad class war it helped produce the situation whereby we had 18 years of Tory Government.

That is why Labour wants to see a lower 10p starting rate of tax to help 24 million people on middle and lower incomes and, for the next parliament, we will reverse this government's # 3bn top rate tax cut for the top 1 % of earners.