Sentences with phrase «labour policy on»

«Labour policy on free schools is still confused.

Labour policy on low incomes is to raise poverty wages slightly in six years.

Luciana Berger (Lab, eligible) wants Cameron to adopt Labour policy on energy companies, reciting Miliband's policy from his speech yesterday.

So what is the FS / Labour policy on Right to Buy and public housing?

At one point Ms Kendall rued that there had been no «ambitious, inspiring» Labour policies on education, but Mr Hunt contradicted her by citing plans to devolve powers over schools to local communities.

Not exact matches

Rather, he argues, Ottawa needs to pursue a more multi-faceted policy that focuses on the parts sector and the tool - makers, promotes labour - force development and assists Canadian auto parts suppliers to promote themselves internationally.

But it also has policies directly addressing issues common to the garment industry, such as prohibitions on forced and child labour.

The opposition Labour Party, which had repeatedly called on Rudd to resign, said May was responsible and should explain her own role in the government's immigration policies.

These employees also collect data on the regional impact of government policies like taxation, international trade, labour markets, transportation or agriculture.

Britain's opposition Labour Party said the attack on English hospitals showed the need to place cyber security at the heart of government policy.

They said in their statement that future policy will be contingent on a handful of factors, including the «evolution» of «labour market conditions.»

Marc Lee, economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a progressive Vancouver think tank, says that government action on the reforms suggested by labour will be hampered by ideological objections to running deficits in bad times.

The guiding mentality of Tony Blair - style «New Labour» policy is economic loyalty to Europe's financial centers as government spending is slashed, public infrastructure privatized and banks bailed out with «taxpayer» burdens that fall mainly on labor.

Highly critical of New Labour but strongly influenced by Scandinavian social democracy, Compass is advancing themes and policies which will resonate on the progressive left in Canada — a relentless focus on -LSB-...]

It's true that demographic forces are leading to slower growth in the labour force, which reduces the neutral interest rate in the economy and increases the chances that monetary policy will be constrained by the lower bound on interest rates.

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He has written on municipal finance, infrastructure, tax, energy, environmental and labour policy.

Before your meeting, learn about labour laws and your company's policies on maternity and parental leave.

CME's Director of Policy and Economics Mike Holden's Labour Force Survey Analysis — October 2015 reportis available along with analysis on GDP, trade and manufacturing sales data at our Economic Dashboard.

«Piecing together Breivik's various posts on the Internet, many media reports have characterized the terrorist — who says he was upset over the multiculturalist policies stemming from Norway's Labour Party — as a «right - wing, Christian fundamentalist.»

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

He also spoke with senior researchers and staff from the Regional Australia Institute about the role of the regions on the national policy agenda and where core issues like labour force demands and decentralisation fit into the overall economic picture.

Social Sustainability Director speaks about Public Policy on Labour Welfare at AHIFORES International Forum

David Lammy's report for the Labour Party policy review This report for the Labour's Party's policy review, written by David Lammy MP, presses the agenda forward on paternity leave, calling for adequate pay levels and independent leave rights, paid antenatal appointments and part time leave and pay.

Thank you for writing to me, on behalf of the Baby Feeding Law Group, about the Labour Party's policy on infant and young child feeding.

Cultural beliefs about gender roles and division of labour have an impact on family policies.

Enact paid family leave and workplace breastfeeding policies, building on the International Labour Organization's maternity protection guidelines as a minimum requirement, including provisions for the informal sector.

Our next piece took a look at this week's Hollyrood election debate and and suggested that the SNP's income tax policies show that the New Labour project lives on in Scotland.

«I'm quietly confident, in a non-complacent way, that the people who are flirting with the Greens, a large number of them will end up voting Labour - for positive reasons, because we've got radical policies on the environment, we've got very good policies on addressing inequality, the housing crisis, the NHS.

If the Lib Dems did emerge as as an attractive progressive alternative - and they have been rowing in the opposite direction in some ways of late, e.g., on tax policy - that would put useful pressure on Labour to mend its ways.

Labour has slavishly followed Tory policies for 12 years, and Cameron has modelled himself and his politics on Tony Blair.

In fact Stephen Beer claimed Labour needed to respond to the tough decisions it faced on the economy, outline an economic plan for the future rather than a retrospective attack on Coalition policy and most importantly close the economic credibility gap that was first conceived and then grew during Labour's last years in office.

A trio of senior ministers have demanded a full discussion on Britain's nuclear policy in the wake of the decision not to debate the issue at this year's Labour conference.

Chaired by NASUWT President Geoff Branner, the meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester highlighted how savage economic policies are wreaking havoc on children's education.

And the longer the government carries on with these failing policies, the bigger the challenge will be for the next Labour government.

That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.

When Kathy, my wife, went into the labour ward (December 5, 2003) I sat with her reading Julian Le Grand's book on motivation and public policy, working out which passages I could use for an Oxford admissions interview.

Roger has written extensively on European and British Affairs, including The Blair Revolution (with Peter Mandelson, 1996), Global Europe, Social Europe (with Anthony Giddens and Patrick Diamond, 2006) and Beyond New Labour (with Patrick Diamond, 2009), as well as several other Fabian Society and Policy Network pamphlets.

You could be on the doorstep and say something about a policy and a voter would agree, but then say «But we're Labour».

However, his determination to stick to Labour's current policy on Trident clearly annoyed the Labour leader and Lewis has now paid the price.

His concerns about Labour's current policy platform notwithstanding, Jarvis also reveals that he would be willing to serve on Jeremy Corbyn's frontbench if asked.

North of the border the SNP has been incredibly successful by pursuing what are essentially «Old Labour» policies on healthcare and education.

They argue that Labour has a duty to try and actively change public opinion, not simply reflect it, particularly when a widely supported policy will inflict severe hardship on thousands of families.

But what happens when a Corbynite canvasser unwittingly calls a sceptical former Labour staffer with an impeccable grasp on economic policy?

The Nigeria Labour Congress National Executive Council is also meeting tomorrow and we have invitation to also attend the meeting and that is why today we have taken our position and there is no doubt that we are also going to fight for that reversal and we are not stopping on just reversal to N86.50 k, we are also going to further our struggle against the deregulation policy, against the privatization policy and the need for a political alternative and that is where we are going.

If the Lib Dems had formed a coalition with LAbour, either in 1997 or in 2010, it would have been a predominant Labour policy agenda based on the votes cast.

For instance, they struck a bargain with the Liberal Party (the so - called «Lib - Lab Pact») in a desperate bid to cling to power in 1977, by the terms of which Labour agreed to take on board certain policy proposals favoured by the Liberals, including electoral reform.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

And he re-iterated the message while speaking at the international policy forum on the sidelines of the Labour conference in Liverpool.

In a recent blog post for (the appropriately titled) Conservative Home, the Labour party's Policy Co-Ordinator, Jon Cruddas MP (also a contributor to The Labour Tradition), reflects on Scruton's new book, How to be a Conservative: he describes his Conservatism as a love of home.