Sentences with phrase «forced labour at»

Among the allegations commonly lobbed at Canadian mining companies, permitting forced labour at one's mine surely ranks among the most outrageous.

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Every month, Statistics Canada releases their Labour Force Survey, a barometer of the health of labour markets at the provincial and metropolitan lLabour Force Survey, a barometer of the health of labour markets at the provincial and metropolitan llabour markets at the provincial and metropolitan levels.

By the time construction commenced at Bisha in late 2008, forced labour was an inseparable feature of Eritrea's economy.

This financial picture, combined with the labour strife, has forced its share price below 90 cents, down from $ 1.10 in January and a tiny fraction of its value five years ago, when it traded at close to $ 20.

But too much of that is due to people dropping out of the workforce altogether (because the job market is * that * good): now at 63.2 %, the labour force participation rate has been catapulted all the way back to that which last prevailed in 1978.

A recent study by the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship found that up to 42 % of the Canadian labour force is at high risk of being affected by automation in the next 10 - 20 years.

He noted the federal government's budget last month made commitments aimed at increasing the labour - force participation of women.

Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Quebec and the federal government (for areas of federal labour - force jurisdiction) are at various stages of rolling out PRPPs.

You might recall Fed Vice-Chair Janet Yellen discussing at length the numerous pitfalls of the headline unemployment rate, which doesn't count the discouraged workers who've dropped out of the labour force, those who've stopped looking for work but say they would still like to have a job, and those who would like to work full - time but could only find part - time employment.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

Overall we found that nearly 42 percent of the Canadian labour force is at a high risk of being affected by automation in the next decade or two.

When looking at the results of this study and trends in part - timers by industry using the Labour Force Survey, Sylvain found that six of seven industries at the bottom end of average weekly wage increases have seen an increase in the proportion of part - timers.

Surveys of businesses» hiring intentions are at high levels, and print - based vacancy measures have been growing in line with the above - average growth in the labour force.

Even more significant, the strong expansion of the labour force and employment as shown by the (separate) household survey in February and March (averaging 388,000 per month) kept the unemployment rate at 5.0 % in March.

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.

At every moment the vast and horrible Thing breaks in upon us through the crevices and invades our precarious dwelling - place, that Thing we try so hard to forget but which is always there, separated from us only by thin dividing walls: fire, pestilence, earthquake, storm, the unleashing of dark moral forces, all these sweep away ruthlessly, in an instant, what we had laboured with mind and heart to build up and make beautiful.

At one time a principal part of the labour force consisted of slavery, but many saw it was wrong and moved on.

CGF Social Sustainability Manager Facilitated Breakout Session at RBA Roundtable on Forced Labour in Penang, Malaysia

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Interestingly, the UK Border Agency — responsible for securing the UK border at air, rail and sea ports and migration controls — was set up in 2008 following a very similar set of criticisms that forced the then Labour Home Secretary John Reid to declare that the Home Office's immigration directorate was «not fit for purpose» and that a single Agency was needed to secure effective and efficient management of the UK border.

In October 2013, Labour established a task force, headed by Khan, to look at how to deal with the threat posed by the Green party.

Because as well as the official Labour conference, Momentum - the driving force behind Jeremy Corbyn — are staging their own «happening» (I've been instructed by James Schneider, a Momentum big wig, that it is NOT a conference... erm... okay) up the road in Liverpool at the same time.

At present, there are two principal measures of unemployment used by the Government: the International Labour Organisation (ILO) measure (the UK's version being known as the Labour Force Survey or LFS unemployment); and the Claimant Count.

Around 20 Labour MPs have joined forces to record a Christmas single aimed at raising awareness of...

an entirely obstreperous Lib Dem Party might force Labour to form a grand coalition with the Conservatives or at least agree to dissolve the government or lose all credibility themselves.

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.

On top of this, these are all seats where Labour used to have an incumbency advantage (which will have helped them at the 2010 election), but where they are now forced to cope without these resources.

If Labour goes ahead with its plan to argue for more time and oppose the government motion, and if three dozen Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers join forces, then, with the support of at least some of the minor parties, a government defeat or a pyrrhic win is far from impossible.

Of course, forced labour (a term which at least has an agreed definition, unlike «modern day slavery») is a labour market phenomenon not solely affecting migrants.

The SNP is now a leading political force at Scottish Parliament level, while Labour have generally have the upper hand in all past Westminster elections, despite the increase in the SNP vote in recent years.

Support for Labour continued to erode (with it standing at 30 - 32 % in opinion polls) in the months up to Blair being forced from office in April 2007.

With the party already at a financial disadvantage compared to Labour and the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats are likely to face real difficulties in getting their message across to voters — especially when attention is paid to the two main parties and emerging forces such as UKIP and the Greens.

And, although the trade union general secretaries at present are not rocking Blair's boat, Mandelson and Blair still fear an eventual link - up between the Labour left and trade unions forced by their memberships into opposition to Blair's policies.

In no time at all, the word is spread online and a force far beyond the control of Labour MPs is unleashed.

First he delivered an emotional defence of trade unionism as a civilising force which has been simply unheard of at a Labour leader's speech for a generation.

Ed Miliband's decision to launch 18 - month policy units suggested he believed the coalition would last the full five years, but the recent public split at the top of the government has forced some Labour figures to reassess their timetable.

It strengthens the NPL now view, but does not clinch it, as the major affiliated unions and other bodies are likely to stick with Labour, at least until the election, unless constitutional changes which effectively end union affiliation come into force before then.

The Labour Force Survey estimates for the 3 months up to March 2015 show a fall of 0.4 percentage points in the Welsh employment rate compared to the same period a year earlier (currently at 69.4 %), compared to a rise of 1.0 percentage points in the UK rate (to 73.5 %).

Standing at the back of the chamber, Labour MPs Chris Evans and Toby Perkins - who stood down as shadow Armed Forces minister this morning - could be seen shouting «resign» in their leader's direction.

Momentum claims its event is not a rival to the Labour conference but the fact that it is happening at the same time clearly shows what a force it has become.

'' «Our appeal is to all MPs of conscience: join us, vote against these unfair and unworkable changes and force the government to think again,» he told delegates at the Scottish Labour party's conference in Oban.

With mutterings of Clegg's removal, either by his own party, or by force of having to enter into coalition with Labour — who would be more likely to do a deal without him at the helm, and with Vince Cable or even Tim Farron instead — had some wondering if Clegg's forward - looking speech was a little unrealistic.

Jeremy Corbyn may have just been critical of the media in his big speech, but Labour MPs and lobby journalists were out in force to rub shoulders at the Mirror party on the last night of Labour conference.

Another Labour frontbencher who backs intervention said: «We could have called a vote at today's meeting forcing the leader to support military action because we had the numbers, but we didn't because he told us it was a process and we would be meeting again on Monday.

The heirs of the groups shouting at one another in the 1980s seem to have joined forces to replace New Labour.

But the absence of Conservative MPs at the final vote forced two Labour MPs into the strange scenario of having to act as tellers for the «no» vote against their own motion in order for the vote to be able to go ahead at all.

Against the background of opinion polls pointing to a Labour landslide, in a week he transformed the political weather, forcing Brown to back down at the eleventh hour.

Indeed, if AV had been in force at the last election, the Tories would have got 281 rather than 306 seats — and Labour would have been up four, on 258.

The collapsed effort at forcing through the Postal Services Bill against Labour backbench opposition to restructure the Royal Mail is a glaring example of a government backing away from issues it really needs to deal with.

Burnham, who was forced on to the defensive earlier this year over his actions as health secretary relating to the Mid-Staffordshire scandal, is viewed as the most at - risk figure from the final year of the New Labour government.