Sentences with phrase «about forced labour»

Not exact matches

The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

In 1987, 8.6 % of the labour force worked in sales jobs, estimates Statistics Canada; a generation later, that figure has inched up to 9.7 %, with about 3.7 million Canadians working in «sales and service» as of September 2011.

Air Canada was forced to cancel about 75 flights in April when a faction of pilots called in sick — a strike declared illegal by labour officials.

It turns out that this may be one of those rare cases where Canadian data are richer than American data: the Labour Force Survey has been asking about job tenure since 1976, and we can focus on more tightly - defined age groups.

Most economists expect potential economic growth to decline from about 3 per cent annually to about 2 per cent over the next ten years, as a result of continued poor productivity growth and a slowing labour force growth as the population ages.

If we do nothing, our labour force will stop growing in about 10 years.

Right now, new Canadians make up about 70 per cent of the growth in the Canadian labour force.

However, the labour - force participation in December, 2017, was still about 2 per cent below its rate in April, 2008.

Considering that Canadian MSMEs represent the vast majority of businesses in Canada, employing more than 7.5 million Canadians — about 70 per cent of Canada's private sector labour force — it becomes clear how critically important they are to the growth of the Canadian economy.

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.

Molecular and subatomic forces are pretty much irrelevant to the debate about whether gravity can help progress a labour.

On those MP questions, Margaret Beckett (Lab, you know her, unfortunately) asks about upskilling our labour force.

«By trying to suppress this report, the prime minister has demonstrated that he cares more about the reputation of Labour than he does about the well - being of the armed forces,» he said.

Politically, the two major political forces in Westminster, the Conservative and Labour parties, are in disarray about how to shape UK's ongoing relationship with the EU once we leave.

For example, if Labour is serious about radical economic change then it needs to consider how it can build an alliance of social and political forces to support it.

At its heart are the twin forces that would prove to be the party's undoing: the profound doubts about Labour's instincts on the economy and the surge of nationalism in Labour's onetime Scottish heartlands.

But Mr Hammond insisted: «Criticism from Labour rings equally hollow — they are the cause of the problems we are now resolving, I am determined to get the defence budget back into balance so our armed forces have certainty and clarity about the future.»

After forcing Labour to endorse austerity, Osborne used his last budget speech of this parliament to suggest that he is not even that bothered about the deficit.

Labour's top Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer has set about standing up for those opposed to hard Brexit - and even forced an embarrassing climbdown by Iain Duncan Smith.

Labour was forced to backpedal after shadow Welsh secretary Peter Hain complained about the lack of screen time during the coverage for leader of the opposition Ed Miliband.

The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.

Rumblings of discontent in Tory Remainia have revived chatter about a new political force linking together certain Labour rightwingers, the hapless Liberal Democrats and liberal Tories.

Speaking to Labour Uncut last night, Fox said: «No party has a monopoly on caring about and promoting the best policies for our armed forces.

This speech emerging just a day after Ed Ball's private papers about the plot to force Tony Blair to stand down came into the public domain will create suspicions in Labour circles that there is a deliberate effort underway to undermine Ed Miliband.

Labour is planning to use «moral pressure» as its main weapon to force the government to reveal more about its plan for Brexit, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said.

And in a surprise boost for Labour, she suggested that Jeremy Corbyn was forcing her to clarify the Tory position — by making «fake claims» about the manifesto.

I hope Labour will re-start a dialogue about building firmer, mutually beneficial ties with progressive forces in NI — both within the SDLP and without — in light of Cameron's move.

The Labour leadership contest forces Compass to think really hard about its political strategy.

On Wednesday night, Labour lost a bid to use parliamentary procedures to force the government to publish cabinet papers about the customs row.

Prior to 1997, civil servants in major government departments were forced to consult Will Hutton's The State We're In to discover more about New Labour's plans for government.

I was listening now to Milburn about getting more pupils into better jobs like doctors lawyers, he said a great idea is the Army Cadets, not the one the dirty little poor join, but the army officer cadet force, training officers for the future, once labour says anything about helping ordinary people they ruin it by looking toward the USA new labour has a serious problem with the UK being the UK it should be the USA.

Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander has said there is unease «across party lines» about the Prime Minister's comments on the potential supply of British arms to Syria's opposition forces.

«The Labour Party, the Lib Dems and the Tories, by leaving the door to Britain open, has forced people to turn to a party which speaks openly about the problem of immigration and says that while there might be a few good things about it there's also a lot of bad things.»

Polls showing the majority of voters favour an early poll have raised concerns about Labour's ability to cling on until next June - renewing speculation about possible stalking horses prepared to force a contest and deals being done to smooth the path of Johnson, now emerging as the clear favourite.

This morning Mrs Eagle, who has challenged Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership, explained her reaction: «I couldn't believe that somebody who went round the country telling blatant lies could be rewarded in that way, and I thought immediately of the Hillsborough families because he repeated the slurs about them and then he went up to Merseyside and insulted Merseyside and was forced by Michael Howard to go back up and apologise.

Other committees less frequently engage in this way, but a very interesting example comes from the House of Commons Health Committee, which expressed concerns about limitations on Labour's ban on smoking in public places, and helped to force a vote which toughened these provisions.

It came after the Labour leader was forced to step in after the MP Emily Thornberry resigned from the shadow cabinet for a tweet she posted about the by - election.

This time he was claiming that Labour's candidate Naz Shah, a victim of forced marriage and rape in that marriage, was lying about her experiences.

This is most recently exemplified by concern about the future of HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark, over whose fate Conservative MP Johnny Mercer and Labour MP Luke Pollard have joined forces.

Labour should be asking questions about why thousands of people in 21st Century Britain are forced to be reliant upon Charity, and should be publicly stating why this represents a total failure of the State.

[141] Salmond echoed the views of his predecessor, arguing that Miliband «should be answering questions about why Labour in Scotland is run as an extension of his Westminster office, and why he has effectively forced the resignation of a Labour leader in Scotland.»

In Ghana, however, a lot of industry captains and the labour force complain about the tax rates.

Ken Livingstone was forced to curtail a live radio interview after Labour MP John Mann confronted him over comments he made about Adolf Hitler and antisemitism.

«At least we do not have fear or forced labour like inside [Myanmar] but I worry about the new generation and do not want to have babies with the situation like this,» said one woman, 27 years old, who was recently married (Anon.

Bill I think is on my wavelength about this - as far as I can see 4 people (in addition to you hugh) have made blog contributions - what percentage of the labour force and / or those involved in the sales process does that represent?

Including all age cohorts, about 95 % of the increase in the population not in the labour force reflected an increase in the population who report not wanting a job.

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.

Policies covering about one year of fully job ‑ protected leave and targeting parents with strong prior labour force attachment with benefits covering close to full wage replacement, and with a guaranteed place for a child from the age of one, in a good quality, affordable, out - of - home care facility appear to be garnering support.

In the US and Canada, most men and women are in the labour force when their first child is born, and about 60 % of women who have a child under three years of age are employed.5 Concerns about parental stress (caused by the difficulties of balancing work and family responsibilities) and about children's well - being (in their earliest years of life) have prompted further consideration regarding how parental leave and benefit policies might be improved, and which complementary policies, programs, and services will best promote child and family well - being.