Sentences with phrase «dealing with labour»

«This can be a pretty complicated area particularly for in - house counsel who are dealing with labour or trademark and IP issues.

It is important to understand that the ratification of the Convention will have little impact on present - day legislation and the current situation in Canada, since the rights to associate and bargain freely are already very clearly protected in Canada, under both the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the human rights legislation of every province, as well as by certain provisions of the Canada Labour Code and the statutes of the different provinces dealing with labour relations.

He then emphasized their expertise in dealing with labour relations issues.

It went «horribly wrong» - in the words of one senior colleague - when Sir Menzies made a speech to his spring conference about his conditions for dealing with Labour.

Carwyn Jones has revealed that he doesn't have a personal mobile phone after he was questioned by the Conservatives about whether he used his government - issued phone when he's dealing with Labour party matters.

But there were already signs of tension last night as Kennedy aides suggested that the new leader would proceed as he sees fit in dealing with Labour - and Hughes aides said he could not act «without agreement of the party».

Dealing with Labour leaders was not entirely new to Milne.

«Lynton Crosby is employed by the Conservative party to advise us on political strategy and dealing with Labour and the rest of it.

Perth - based Programmed Maintenance Services is set to strike a long - awaited takeover deal with labour hire company Skilled Group, with both companies entering into trading halts this morning ahead of a formal announcement.

SEOUL, April 23 - General Motors Co's South Korean unit on Monday said it has reached a tentative wage deal with its labour union, meeting a key condition laid down by the U.S. automaker to prevent it filing for bankruptcy for the money - losing operation.

SEOUL, April 23 - General Motors Co's South Korean unit dropped a plan for a vote on a bankruptcy filing after reaching a tentative wage deal with its labour union on Monday that helped the U.S. automaker win concessions on pay, bonuses and benefits.

SEOUL, April 23 - General Motors» South Korean unit said that it has reached a tentative wage deal with its labour union on Monday, meeting a key condition laid down by the U.S. automaker to prevent it filing for bankruptcy for the loss - making operation.

Research by grassroots website LibDemVoice.org found 55 % of party members want either a coalition deal with Labour or a more limited «confidence and supply» arrangement in which the Lib Dems prevent a Labour administration from falling.

Of these, three - quarters expect a deal with Labour and just one - quarter another deal with David Cameron's Conservatives.

A deal with Labour would require a grand coalition with other parties and could be electoral suicide for the Lib Dems in southern England.

Clegg's comments follow an interview with former party leader Paddy Ashdown in the Observer, in which he said he had been wrong to press for a deal with Labour in 2010.

Some of the same people would fall over themselves for us to do a deal with Labour in Wales - as if that wouldn't do the same.

Simon can not be the «most senior Lib Dem MP outside Parliament» and the party didn't go «into a deal with Labour».

The most senior Libdem MP outside of government, Simon Hughes, has said he would have preferred a deal with Labour instead of the Conservatives.

We have been forwarded an email Simon Hughes sent in reply to a voter, in which he explains why the party went into a deal with Labour.

RT @colinross1975: RT @rpcompaneros Exclusive: Simon Hughes would have preferred a deal with Labour http://bit.ly/dnYkpF (via @libcon) &...

People sometimes argue that we were wrong to enter a coalition with the Conservatives, and should have done a deal with Labour.

The appointment was a part of measures to reduce the work load of the court that deals with labour related matters only.

Clegg insisted that a deal with Labour was still in play.

These reservations are shared widely in the Liberal Democrat Party, and have given rise to separate reports that Business Secretary, Vince Cable, who is a former member of the Labour Party, was deeply unhappy at the time of the deal being struck and made last ditch appeals to outgoing Prime Minister Gordon Brown in an attempt to strike a Coalition deal with Labour.

And for those Lib Dems keen to keep a possible deal with Labour alive post-2015, there's a reminder that Ed Miliband is in fact «a weak leader» who heads up a «divided party.»

Lib Dem leadership frontrunner Tim Farron has suggested that he would be equally happy for his party to do a post-election deal with Labour or the Conservatives.

Mr Kennedy said he had wanted further exploration of a potential deal with Labour, and said he favoured a Conservative minority government with the Lib Dems remaining in opposition.

They point to his admission this week that even on the day before he eventually became Prime Minister, he was convinced Clegg had done a deal with Labour and he would remain Leader of the Opposition.

Ed Miliband made no real attempt to deal with Labour's big negatives — that they are the party of welfare and can not be trusted with the public finances.

In terms that will alarm some on the left of his party, who resent working with the Conservatives, the former Lib Dem leader admits that he was wrong to have pushed so hard for a deal with Labour after the 2010 election, when Nick Clegg was moving towards the Tories.

With the government deprived of a majority to force its will, it will either need to grind out and sap the energy of the rebels with months of late - night sittings to win — testing loyalist resolve to breaking point — or ministers will have to cut a deal with Labour.

There is no chance of her doing a deal with Labour or the Scottish National Party, who are on opposite sides of the political divide to the Conservatives.

To be reassured, some will want to hear that if the next election produces another hung parliament the Lib Dems would only deal with Labour, not the Conservatives.

It's clear that he thinks any chance of a deal with Labour was wrecked by Labour and he also says Ed Miliband shows no sign of wanting one before the next election.

«I have just had Paddy Ashdown, Ming [Sir Menzies] Campbell and Charles Kennedy all talking to me separately and all wanting us to support the possibility of a deal with Labour.

And as soon as I tell Brown that a deal with Labour is off, he may just go to the Palace and resign.»

He says an instinctive preference to do a deal with Labour is shared by Liberal Democrat supporters and probably most MPs, but within limits the decision will be shaped by what if any form of hung parliament emerges from the election.

The problem is that it is not only Labour which will not push a trade union agenda but the trade unions themselves the leaders of which were prepared to do deals with Labour leaders to block anti-austerity policies at the recent NPF and therefore at Labour Conference too.

If a hotchpotch deal with Labour and various other parties could not deliver on our policy prospectus, on economic stability or even on the most modest form of electoral reform legislation, what on the earth was the point of it?

Viscount Cranborne, now the Marquis of Salisbury, was sacked by William Hague as leader of the Lords in 1998 after he brokered a deal with Labour's communications chief Alastair Campbell over hereditary peers.

But in a hypothetical hung Parliament situation where the Liberal Democrats could form a majority government with either party, and both offered equally good deals, 46 % of Lib Dem members would prefer a deal with Labour.

Policies - they need binding together as a theme and the issue of how / when to announce the big policy ideas needs resolving because it appears we have been caught in the headlights over how to deal with Labour nicking our ideas or whether to get on with it anyway.

Members remain strongly supportive of the Government, Nick Clegg and the decision to go into coalition, but express concerns over economic policy, reject the idea of a pact with the Tories and, in an ideal world, would prefer a deal with Labour.

Asked what the party should have done given the circumstances after the 2010 election 50 % think a Conservative coalition was the best solution, 22 % would have preferred a deal short of a coalition, 19 % would have preferred a deal with Labour.

Unionist MPs have in the past made deals with both Labour and the Conservatives when both were short of votes in the Commons.

The Liberal Democrats have also left open the possibility of a deal with Labour, with the implication that they would see eye - to - eye on welfare reform — another reason for Labour supporters to vote tactically for the third party.

During the election campaign Clegg sent mixed messages about whether he would ever accept a deal with Labour if Brown stood aside.

He added: «If the Labour Party want to suspend me I will deal with the Labour Party.

Plaid have just announced the end of their deal with Labour and are going into opposition with the Senedd.