Sentences with phrase «labour market reforms»

His embrace of business and of labour market reforms underpinned his approach.

Deindustrialisation and labour market reforms may have increased labour market flexibility and the responsiveness of the labour market, but has this been at the expense of the retention of vital occupational skills?

Uncertainty about labour market reforms, the adequacy of pension systems and future economic conditions may also be discouraging consumers from spending, especially in Germany where these issues have received much publicity.

Labour market reforms, negotiated between employers and unions, followed across German industries.

The failure of Labour's «In Place of Strife» labour market reform proposals in the late 1960s had led to a situation where union power was increasingly stifling markets by keeping wages high.

The Tories will continue to press forward with labour market reform making real people's lives increasingly difficult and unsustainable.

There are calls for labour market reform, for lower labour costs (ie lower wages), for «renewed efforts» to get school leavers into training, for better use of an existing EU jobs website to «facilitate the cross-border placement of young people».

He is expected to say the decisions taken so far have undermined public confidence, created «different classes» of countries and wrongly tried to keep questions of labour market reform, fiscal discipline and management of financial risk separate.

Not exact matches

He then gave a passionate victory speech that sketched out a stronger global role for France and promised to waste no time making the national economy a much more business - friendlyplace, with controversial labour - market, pension, education and constitutional reforms, not to mention tougher measures on crime and immigration.

Certainly our labour markets have imperfections and can be improved, so reforms should be considered.

Given the budget is inherently a financial document, specific details about immigration reform are unlikely to be in it, but it certainly would not hurt to see more financial resources allocated to speeding up the turnaround times on Labour Market Impact Assessments and other applications.

They called for immediate steps to reopen banks and said any deal must address debt sustainability - code for reducing Athens» crushing debt - but gave no hint of concessions from the Greek side towards its creditors» demands for deep spending cuts and far - reaching reforms of pensions and labour markets.

In their 2015 election platform, the Trudeau Liberals identified a number of items related to Employment Insurance (EI) that they would change: reversing the Harper EI reforms defining «suitable work»; reducing the waiting period for EI benefits; reducing EI premiums; introducing more flexible parental leave; providing better access to compassionate care; and increasing funding for employment and training programs managed by provinces, territories and Aboriginal labour market organizations.

Policies that spur more efficient corporate restructuring can revive productivity growth by targeting three inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of «zombie» firms (low productivity firms that would typically exit in a competitive market), capital misallocation and stalling technological diffusion... As the zombie firm problem may partly stem from bank forbearance, complementary reforms to insolvency regimes are essential to ensure that a more aggressive policy to resolve non-performing loans is effective.

That disruption is an effective tactic for reform was demonstrated in the weeks after the 4 Corners program when online grocery delivery service, Aussie Farmers Direct, dumped one of its chicken suppliers although, according to the Weekly Times, it is retaining another chicken supplier implicated in the labour market scandal.

The recent reform of the labour market is probably not as deep as it should have been and has yet led to a general strike, taking place as this article is being written.

Not the neo-Keynesian alternative proffered by the Labour Party, but an economic strategy that included pro-growth initiatives including reform of the labour market, tax cuts and other «supply - side» measures needed to boost competitivLabour Party, but an economic strategy that included pro-growth initiatives including reform of the labour market, tax cuts and other «supply - side» measures needed to boost competitivlabour market, tax cuts and other «supply - side» measures needed to boost competitiveness.

Her general research interests lie at the intersection of international and domestic politics and political economy with a particular focus on International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes, labour markets, macro-economic reform, and ideological and electoral preferences.

Labour has set out proposals for these reforms, including mandatory trading of energy on an open exchange, ring - fencing generator and supply businesses, and the replacement of the now discredited regulator Ofgem with a body that will bear down on unacceptable practice in the energy market.

For all the evasion of policy promises, he was clear here on what Labour would reverse: «the next Labour government will end the free market experiment» and repeal the health service reforms.

Mr Burnham's appeal for cooperation with the Liberal Democrats marks a significant change of tone for Labour towards the Lib Dems, who have previously been criticised by the opposition for being complicit in the Conservatives» market - driven reform agenda.

His critics will argue Merkel, in the face of opposition to free movement reform from eastern European countries, will always choose EU cohesion over changes to the labour market.

The question now is if the sustained electoral success we enjoyed over 13 years will go down as an aberration, an exceptional period in our history, or the opening chapter of a series of New Labour governments dedicated to economic competence and social justice, to the right balance between markets and the state, both reformed in the public interest.

Hosted by the University of Maastricht, the European Labour Market for Academic Graduates conference (ELM2006) will focus on themes related to the international employability of graduates of the Bologna reform degrees.

But our focus was on how the pay reforms affected the teacher labour market across state - funded schools.

Anders Björklund, Per - Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, and Alan Krueger, «Education, Equality, and Efficiency: An Analysis of Swedish School Reforms During the 1990s,» Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation Report (2004), p. 117.

The «market reform» of the legal aid scheme will emasculate a system established by Clement Attlee's Labour government as a key pillar of the welfare state.

However, he also said Labour would not accept the current rules on free movement of people, which means it could not be a member of the single market unless the single market is reformed.

Surely, it will take some time to really get a sense of how the reforms are affecting labour markets across the country anyway.

When talk first began about reforms to the TFWP and employer sanctions for failing to comply with it, much of the reform seemed to centre around those individual employers that took advantage of temporary foreign workers or the labour market.

Given the profile of Indigenous job seekers in the locations where the CDEP reforms will occur, Job Futures has recommended the government maintain the CDEP scheme as an «intermediate labour market program» — which was the broad intention of the 2005 - 06 changes to CDEP guidelines.

Child health professionals and their professional associations can advocate for policy action on the social determinants that support parents» capacity and ability to care for children.46 We need child health professionals to advocate for more equitable welfare reforms, with the test that they must protect children as the most vulnerable members of our society.2 This will include labour market, tax and transfer polices that aim to lift all families with children out of poverty.