Sentences with phrase «national labour force»

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However, some economists and critics have said while the budget moved in the right direction when it comes to raising female labour - force participation, its failure to announce steps towards national affordable child care likely means a significant number of women will remain out of the workforce.

They generate 40 per cent of the national gross domestic product (GDP) and 30 per cent of the state budget and employ 77 per cent of the labour force.

Health Canada, Canadian Forces / Department of National Defence, Canada Post, the CBC, Canada Lands, the Bank of Canada, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the Canadian Museum of Civilization are all employing temporary foreign workers — closing the cheap labour circle.

The national accounts measures of compensation both grew by 0.2 per cent in the March quarter, but these relatively low outcomes appear to have been affected by the recent changes to the Labour Force Survey.

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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.

Office for National Statistics, Focus on Families 2005, Table 1.2, based on Spring 2004 data from the Labour Force Survey

She has authored several national clinical practice guidelines and articles on evidence - based midwifery practice in low resource settings, and was a member of the Midwifery Task Force that led a Delphi process to draft the 2012 Joint Statement on Physiologic Labour and Birth.

There are a myriad of reasons why EEA nationals may find themselves in this position — from their seasonal labour and accommodation coming to an end, to escaping trafficking and forced labour, or just being unable to find affordable accommodation.

The Office for National Statistics collects employment statistics for the public sector as part of the Quarterly Public Sector Survey and for the private sector as part of the Labour Force Survey.

Although government evidence shows that 370,000 people who came to the country as foreign nationals are claiming benefits, Miliband pointed out that proportionately fewer migrants were claiming benefits than in the UK labour force.

The proposal, contained in the Refounding Labour document, which has been drawn up by Peter Hain, chair of the national policy forum, would also insert into the new clause I the statement that Labour is «a force for social justice».

Methodology: Examination of data from the government Labour Force Survey, and two government surveys which are restricted access - the 2001 Census micro-data (the CAMS) and the National Pupil Database.

The prime minister told Labour's national executive committee this morning he wanted to use the heavy attention attracted to the donations case to force through a shake - up of the current system.

Labour MPs are being forced to decide between national party interests, local party interests and internal party interests, so it's not hard to see why they can't agree on the best way forward.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

Gordon Brown remains the biggest man in the Labour Party, and still the most potent force on our national stage.

Large scale random probability surveys, such as the Labour Force Survey, The National Readership survey and the British Election Study

In Japan for example, by 2030 the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research estimates the labour force will have contracted by over 15 percentvi, threatening GDP growth and placing a high burden on those in work to provide benefits for a growing number of retirees.

It is also far too convenient to suggest that, on top of all other duties, teachers should contribute more to struggling national economies by creating innovators, active citizens and a skilled labour force to emerging new occupations.

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According to Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey figures, last year Britons took 137 million sick days.

However, the most prominent form of slavery — at any rate in Britain — is the widespread scourge of trafficking of women across national borders for sexual exploitation or for forced labour.

Pay and employment equity, a national and universal publicly funded child care system, and labour standards to improve the conditions of part - time workers were recommended by a series of federally appointed task forces and royal commissions.

Around one million people in the UK (3 — 4 % of the labour force) now work on zero hours contracts, according to research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD); about four times more than recent figures from the Office for National Statistics suggested.

For this purpose, the military deployed or provided forced labour, conscripted under Eritrea's National Service Program,» said the ruling.