Sentences with phrase «forced some labour figures»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Employment rates ages 15 - 65 % of unemployed in civilian labour force (figures for Iceland, Mexico, Sweden and Turkey were taken from the CIA World Factbook, 2005 data) % of unemployed in long - term unemployed category

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.

Interpretation of the monthly figures in recent months has been complicated by the effects of changes in interviewing procedures for the Labour Force Survey.

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.

Recent news suggests that figures in both Labour and Conservative are mobilising forces to block the bill with proposals for both thresholds and date changes discussed in recent days.

There is a financial black hole of half a billion pounds in the country's police forces, according to figures seen by Labour.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has been forced to deny any involvement in attempts to smear opponents amid claims that «damaging» emails could have been sent by him to one of the key figures in a plot to attack senior Tories.

He couldn't have gone into the next election as Labour's future Chancellor, as his recent bungles with figures demonstrated, but the resignation doesn't look to have been forced by Labour's leader to sort the problem now.

Public pressure will eventually force Gordon Brown to hold a referendum on the EU treaty, a veteran Labour figure said last night.

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.

* A series of Labour MPs and other party figures calling on Mr Brown to stand aside, with rebels convinced they can force him out in the wake of Sunday night's European election results.

The new figures will be published quarterly, will adhere to international standards and will be derived from interviews with 60 000 households in the Labour Force Survey, that is being carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.

From the late 1960s his work shifted to depicting everyday people, with some satirical aspects, creating figures that could be conceived as representative of an entire labour force, class or even a nation.

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

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.

There were between 76,711 — 230,379 low - skilled migrant workers in Canada at the end of 2012 — making them 0.0042 per cent — 0.013 per cent of the labour force (the large discrepancy between the figures is because 153,668 workers» occupational classification is not reported on by Immigration Canada).

According to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute, 20 - 30 % of the labour force in both the US and EU is now made up of independent workers — while not all actively choose independent work and derive their primary income from it (these are categorised as «free agents» in the study), the figures are indicative of a decisive trend.