Sentences with phrase «labour forces when»

They're not able to axe people willy nilly, but they can sack under - performing workers or downsize labour forces when the economy turns sour, provided they follow strict guidelines.

To support family work and child rearing and to create an incentive for women to leave the labour force when children are very young; or

In the US and Canada, most men and women are in the labour force when their first child is born, and about 60 % of women who have a child under three years of age are employed.5 Concerns about parental stress (caused by the difficulties of balancing work and family responsibilities) and about children's well - being (in their earliest years of life) have prompted further consideration regarding how parental leave and benefit policies might be improved, and which complementary policies, programs, and services will best promote child and family well - being.

Not exact matches

How is it, then, that when allegations arose that a Canadian mine may have been built with forced labour, the government's response was largely confined to drawing up «media lines» and «talking points?»

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.

«That was when it degenerated into forced labour,» Kibreab says.

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.

During the 1980s, when the baby boomers had by and large entered the labour force, the profession grew in the U.S. by a staggering 54 %.

However, some economists and critics have said while the budget moved in the right direction when it comes to raising female labour - force participation, its failure to announce steps towards national affordable child care likely means a significant number of women will remain out of the workforce.

Air Canada was forced to cancel about 75 flights in April when a faction of pilots called in sick — a strike declared illegal by labour officials.

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.

In that period we lost 11 per cent of the total jobs in the sector when the labour force grew by 18 per cent.

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.

This disruption works best when it is immediate and continuous, and would ideally include forcing the exploitative labour hire companies and complicit farmers either into reform and transparency or out of business, and prosecuting them where guilty.

If you have been hurt badly, lied to or had significant physical and emotional damage from traditional medical care — being forced back into that environment will cause fear, that will hamper labour due to how women were made (any threat the woman feels causes labour to slow until she no longer experiences that «fight or flight response», and when she feels safe again, labour should resume)-- labour slows and then interventions «have» to be done... and the cycle repeats itself — reenforcing the belief that the hospital is not the place to birth.

So quite possibly you forced your baby to stay in a suboptimal environment, rather than consider induction of labour when your doctor first identified the need for intervention.

His move is widely derided as a kamikaze mission for forcing 49 Labour MPs to rebel so soon, many reluctantly compelled to traipse into the division lobby after promising constituents to champion the Remain cause, with the ploy angrily denounced as suicide politics when the stand mustered a mere 101 MPs and precipitated a frontbench resignation and dismissals.

When Iain Duncan Smith warns unemployed youth they will be forced to pick up litter in exchange for their benefits, he stigmatises young people as irresponsible, selfish and lazy citizens who need to be forced into unwaged labour to learn the right values.

When the Tories got destroyed in 1997 (with more votes than Labour got in 2010) Tory activists didn't plan to force the elected government to back down from pursuing its agenda.

Of course, you realise that this just a precursor to your resignation letter, which I comfortably predict will be posted here (or on some sort of future - tech equivalent) in 2030, when Labour gets back into power and is forced once again in the compromises inherent therein.

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.

Ever since World War I, when the the likes of the UK Labour Party, the Australian Labor Party and the German Social Democratic Party split over the slaughter in the trenches, left - of - centre parties have been divided between a principled pacifist wing and what has normally been a majority prepared to back military force when considered necessary.

Again, if the Conservatives were only a little way short (and the recent surge to the Lib Dems may so decimate Labour that the Tories do better in target seats than expected), they could try to mimic the final years of John Major's government, when the Conservative PM was forced to rely on the votes of Ulster Unionists.

Clegg's hopes of reforming the Lords ran into trouble when the government was forced to withdraw a «programme motion» that would have set a timetable for the Lords reform bill, to avert defeat in the face of an alliance of Labour MPs and Tory rebels.

No 10 had hoped to reduce the rebellion when the government announced the withdrawal of a «programme motion» earlier in the day when it became clear that Labour would join forces with the rebels to reject the measure.

When he announced in 2001 he was «leaving Parliament to spend more time on politics» it was widely held to be judgement not only on the impoverishment of the British political system, but also a lament for the decline of his beloved Labour Party and the rise of the spin - obsessed forces of New Labour.

On a day when the Labour leader needed to be picking up votes, Gordon Brown was forced to issue a succession of apologies after a gaffe in which he referred to a Labour - supporting Rochdale voter as «bigoted».

Far better to sit this one out and come back when the next (caretaker) Labour leader is forced out after the Europe referendum in 2017.

Namely when he was forced to resign as Labour's social media tsar in 2012 after posting a spoof video online which compared Alex Salmond to Adolf Hitler...

In a move with strong echoes of Tony Blair's Clause Four campaign, when he scrapped the party's commitment to nationalising industry, Mr Miliband will insert a clause that brands Labour «a force for social justice».

I wish Labour would stop being so prescriptive when it comes to identity and stop forcing Britishness on us when we're far more comfortable being English, Scottish and Welsh.

Corbyn's biggest victory by far came this week, however, when Labour forced the government to retreat on their planned cuts to tax credits.

Labour critics of Jeremy Corbyn should consider forcing out their leader only when the majority of party members realise the public has formed a negative view of him, according to Peter Mandelson.

When British forces withdrew from Iraq, a similarly lackadaisical approach was taken - until public and political outcry forced the Labour Government to let them in.

The Labour party is always at its best when it is seen as a modernising force; a movement that has the capability to tangibly improve the lives of people across the UK.

In their view of recent Labour history, the party only made itself a credible force for power when it abandoned support for unilateral disarmament in 1989 in favour of multilateral disarmament.

The most encouraging finding for the Conservatives is that voters prefer the Tories to Labour by 44 % to 36 % when asked to make a forced choice.

That attack came back to haunt her after Labour won the 1997 election when, as minister for public health, she was forced by Tony Blair to allow tobacco advertising to continue in Formula One motor - racing.

«Lib Dems defeating Tories» is, therefore a curious situation; a situation made all the more curious when Lib Dem MPs (in government) join forces with Labour MPs (in opposition) to «defeat» Conservatives (in government) who on the whole voted against the amendment.

The reality is surely that when forced to make their decision, significantly more people give priority to the arguments that the Tories are making than to those made by Labour.

Tory chairman Patrick McLoughlin said: «It is a sorry state of affairs when talented members of parliament like him no longer feel comfortable representing Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party — a divided party run by a leader who opposes Trident and wants to dismantle our Armed Forces.

It had worked well in the 1990s, when Labour was last in opposition, forcing the Tories to defend the largesse of the fat cats while generating funds to help tackle youth unemployment.

We are scandalized by the time it took the New Patriotic Party to publicly condemn the actions of Hajia Fati; and when that came, it was markedly forced, laboured and half - hearted.

«Following Labour's collapse at these elections, many of their seats will now be at risk when Gordon Brown is finally forced into calling a general election.»

Lu Yanshi and Feng Wanyu are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labour camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident.

We follow Jon, who when not working his 9 - 5 pushing keys in a dismal office block somewhere in little England, labours tirelessly on creating music, forcing inspiration from wherever he can, namely his daily commute.

The brilliant Djimon Hounsou is farmer Solomon Vandy, separated from his family when his village is attacked and he's forced into slave labour digging for diamonds.

When members of the labour force have lost their jobs in the past, they have been able to draw equity from their homes or borrow in order to maintain spending.

If there's one thing we've learned from history is that humanity is essentially just waiting around for either an incredibly intelligent AI of our own devising or a bunch of aliens to turn up and enslave us all, because when put under the whip we make a solid, if slightly whiny, labour force.

You see, I was labouring under the (perhaps simplistically naive) impression that chemical associations such as HCO3 would have forced more CO2 down to the oceans because when you reduce the activity of CO2 in the oceans you create a disequilibrium between PCO2atm and pCO2 aqueous and this increases the driving force for transferring CO2 from the atmosphere to the oceans.