Sentences with phrase «forced labour on»

Margaret begins an investigation that takes her to Australia, where she meets other adults who, as children, were taken from care to a life of institutions and forced labour on the other side of the world.

The welfare uprating bill will try to force Labour on the «wrong» side of public opinion, while encouraging party populists like Liam Byrne to get into a firefight with the more left - wing elements.

Not exact matches

London also saw a record 5,000 people leaving the labour force, but their employment decline of 3,700 was only the 5th worst on record.

The data, collected on a survey basis, includes estimates on the number of employed persons and the size of the labour force (which is roughly equal to the number of employed persons plus persons without jobs but actively looking for work).

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.»

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.

But, then again, Ottawa already spends more than $ 12 billion a year on post-secondary education, plus billions more on joint labour force training agreements with the provinces.

The 113 respondents offered their views on a host of retirement issues, including when they plan to retire and the benefits of keeping older workers in the labour force.

And on the Gulf Coast, some 25 proposed plants would mostly be built on brownfield sites with access already to infrastructure and skilled local labour forces.

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.

That means the next Statistics Canada snapshot of the labour force — September employment figures are slated for release on Oct. 7 — will be very closely watched.

For these reasons the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Statistics Canada base their calculations on surveys: the Current Population Survey in the United States and its Canadian counterpart, The Labour Force Survey, are conducted monthly and use a sample of between 50,000 and 60,000 households to represent the working age population in each country, those 15 years of age and older.

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.

There is a limit to how many hours there are in a day that employees can work, how low the unemployment rate can go on a sustained basis, how high the labour force participation rate can rise, and how large the proportion of working - age people within the total population can be.

Staying on hold would also signal that the Bank trusts the Labour Force Survey more than most people, and puts a higher weighting on labour market than productionLabour Force Survey more than most people, and puts a higher weighting on labour market than productionlabour market than production data.

For example, faster labour force growth will encourage firms to invest not only to meet greater demand but also to equip these additional workers with machines and other capital to raise their productivity.5 The rate of technological progress is also a key factor, since a faster pace of innovation raises the return on each additional unit of capital, stimulating firms to invest more.

He also called on businesses to invest more in training, improve working conditions, and seek workers who are under - represented in the labour force.

Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.

These improvements were reflected in the rise in the participation rate to 63 %, up 0.6 % since September, confirming there is greater slack in the labour force than conveyed by the headline unemployment rate, and suggesting that longer term unemployed or discouraged workers who have hitherto remained on the sidelines are being pulled back into the labour market by the growth in employment opportunities.

Being a woman on a job site isn't always easy — we represent under 10 % of the skilled labour force and when you walk onto a job site it can be intimidating.

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.

This is unfortunate since other Statistics Canada surveys of earnings and income such as the Labour Force Survey do not gather data based on racial status.

It detailed Christians as «being hung on a cross over a fire, crushed under a steamroller, herded off bridges and trampled underfoot... extra-judicial killing, extermination, enslavement / forced labour, forcible transfer of population, arbitrary imprisonment, torture, persecution, enforced disappearance, rape and sexual violence, and other inhumane acts.»

On the other hand idle vagabonds donned the cowl in order to avoid the usual forced labour....

Back then, it concentrated on the plight of Christians in Eastern Europe - behind what was called the Iron Curtain, where a Soviet - dominated system, backed by torture and imprisonment in the Gulag forced - labour camps, imposed an official atheism.

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

The issue of child labour came to the fore in 2001 after a series of media exposes depicted forced child labour and trafficking on West African cocoa farms.

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

Global CEOs on the Board of The Consumer Goods Forum continue their efforts in tackling forced labour by adopting and calling for action on «Priority Industry Principles»: Every worker should...

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.

Identify areas to be addressed as priority in terms of adverse impact, with focus on forced and migrant labour (in close collaboration with the Consumer Goods Forum), ethical recruitment and grievance mechanisms

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.

For women in labour, the assault is often sexual due to the nature of the procedures being forced on them.

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

However, despite the valiant efforts of left Rawlsians to press down hard on pre-distribution and force it to yield some radical implications (O'Neill and Williamson, 2012; Doron, 2012), in Miliband's formulation it seems a weak reed, relying on labour market interventions such as education and training to alter distributional outcomes.

It forces applicants to present themselves in person in Croydon regardless of circumstance, leading one pregnant woman to go into labour on the steps of the screening centre.

The state of being dominated is so objectionable because on the one hand the master can use their power to extract benefits from the dominated (through their labour, for example), and because it forces the dominated into a position where they have to flatter and ingratiate themselves with their master in order to avoid their wrath.

The Labour leader was forced into his latest reshuffle after four front benchers — Lewis, Rachael Maskell, Dawn Butler and Tulip Siddiq — all resigned over his three line whip on the Brexit bill.

Meanwhile prime minister David Cameron and former Labour home secretary John Reid joined forces to expand on the merits of First Past the Post.

Labour tried to outmanoeuvre the Conservatives on the issue of pornography today, as it threw its support behind plans to force internet users to «opt - in'to online sexual content.

On Monday afternoon, the idea that Labour might become an effective, unified political force under Eagle was exposed as the fantasy it always was.

Labour is expected to attempt to force Eric Pickles and work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith to answer an urgent question on the issue today in the Commons.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

Labour has vowed to use a vote on Wednesday to invoke an ancient and obscure piece of parliamentary procedure in a bid to force the move.

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.

Cameron refused, saying it was a matter for the RBS board, leading Miliband to announce that Labour would force a Commons vote on whether or not the government should block it.

New figures show that Labour is considerably further behind the SNP with an age - group that is planning to turn out in force on May 7.