Sentences with phrase «higher labour standards»

And while foreign OHS laws may apply to foreign workers employed by Canadian companies, that idea is also changing as companies feel compelled to join the corporate social responsibility movement, which has been issuing calls to apply higher labour standards abroad for foreign workers.

Canadians generally enjoy high pay and high labour standards because we can afford to.

Our manufacturing facilities implement some of the highest labour standards in the world, and our local production allows us to work with and give back to our community, including supporting those with multi-barriers to employment.

Not exact matches

The concerns over labour and environmental standards that dominated the NAFTA debate are largely irrelevant in the context of the EU, where such standards are generally as high as — if not higher than — those in North America.

Meat industry employers objected to red tape and higher labour costs, but community standards were enforced, most operators complied, and the worst operators eventually left the business.

Combined with the unique circumstances of the post-war world, the stage was set for an extended period of broad - based economic growth that could accommodate both increased profit rates for capital and higher real living standards for labour (Anderson, 1992, 310).

The onset of a long period in opposition for social democratic standard - bearers such as Labour in Britain and the SPD in Germany, coupled with continuing slow growth, high unemployment and falling unionisation, led the parties of the Socialist International into a comprehensive accommodation with neo-liberalism — albeit one wrapped in soothing social market rhetoric and homeopathic concessions at the margins.

A Labour spokesperson said: «We can not comment on individual complaints, but all Labour members and representatives are expected to uphold the highest standard of conduct at all times.»

Despite Labour's stubborn lead, he reports, Tory strategists believe voters find Ed Miliband unconvincing and that an improving economy will eventually translate into higher living standards.

A Labour Party spokeswoman said: «We can not comment on individual complaints, but all Labour members and representatives are expected to uphold the highest standard of conduct at all times.»

It is not too late for Miliband to persuade voters that he is able to deliver higher living standards for all, not just the rich; but Cameron will hope that by this time next year, enough voters will feel better off, and sufficiently optimistic about the future, to spurn Labour's message.

The Labour leader fails to defeat the PM in today's questions on living standards, as well as the House's high spirits on high horses

Dianne Hayter, chair of Labour's national executive committee, said Labour was committed to the «highest standards of openness and transparency.»

BASC has welcomed the Labour Party's commitment to «promote high standards with regards to game shoots, tackle criminality, and promote sustainability» contained within their animal welfare consultation launched today

Labour's shadow Secretary of State for the Environment spoke of the importance of high standards in shooting

Over the coming months Labour will continue to set out radical but credible policies to earn our way to higher living standards for all, not just a few and tackle this deep - seated cost of living crisis.

It is two faced for us to ask a higher standard of Labour than of ourselves and voters will not be too pleased about that.

The driver could be casual labour and not trained to a high standard that a company investing in its employed workforce would normally make.

Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said greater rigour in vocational qualifications was essential for achieving high standards and that Labour supported this.

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It is interesting to observe at the same time that both the BMA and the Department of Health, who have sponsored the Bill, seem to be labouring under the same misapprehension about the «flexible» application of the civil standard of proof in healthcare regulatory cases, namely that more serious matters will require a higher degree of probability of being true.

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