Sentences with phrase «labour legislation in»

Analysts point out that more needs to be done, including a stronger enforcement mechanism and domestic labour legislation in Mexico.

Tom's significant contributions to the development of labour legislation in BC over the course of his career is highlighted in the publication.

The panel's recommendations resulted in major changes to the labour legislation in B.C.

Not exact matches

This third pillar includes raising the minimum wage in a transparent and predictable manner, improving associated employment standards legislation, and generally making sure labour laws have kept pace with what's happening in workplaces across the country.

In December, labour minister Yasir Naqvi announced changes to labour legislation that would bring unpaid workers under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and boost workplace inspections this spring.

Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.&Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.&labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»

Due to be passed in June, the new legislation would amend the Canada Labour Code mandating MPs and other employers on the Hill do «everything in their power» to prevent harassment and violence among staff.

«This new legislation is part of our overall commitment to fairness in Ontario's workplaces and will help ensure that women and other groups are treated equitably,» said Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn.

Passage of implementing legislation for the Constitution Reform to Mexico's labour justice system has been delayed beyond the February 24 deadline as political parties jockey for advantage in the midst of an election campaign and NAFTA negotiations.

But there was even an effort in that legislation that was being proposed by the government to ensure that we would see coercive powers used against workers rather than used against employers who were intentionally underpaying those workers or other workers in the labour market.

Governments should enact imaginative legislation protecting the breastfeeding rights of working women and establishing means for its enforcement in accordance with international labour standards.

11:28 - Ian Davidson, the Labour MP for Glasgow South West, kicks off by backing the bill because «the government can not be trusted and therefore it is necessary to put this down in legislation to allow them no wriggle - room whatsoever».

David Davis, the Conservatives» leading civil liberties champion who quit frontbench politics to fight a by - election on Labour's counter-terrorism legislation, waded in with his own threats this morning.

I re-wrote Labour's Charter for Angling in 2004 and have helped pilot through legislation to enhance and improve our fisheries and waterside environment.

By announcing its position a day in advance of the legislation's publication, Labour has given ministers the opportunity to bow to the pressure and put in some last - minute changes.

Legislation has been brought forward to make sure the union levy for the Labour Party becomes an opt - in — something which ironically will give the Barons greater power.

During its time in office, New Labour passed a remarkable volume of legislation.

The partners of the international community in the reform process in all relevant policy areas — especially agriculture, labour legislation, public services, and social security — are all segments of BiH society, not just local political elites.

After Nick Clegg said «in words of one syllable» that the Human Rights Act «is here to stay», home secretary Theresa May responded this week by saying she'd like to see the New Labour legislation scrapped.

«In the workplace we have seen protective legislation being withdrawn without any Labour leadership opposition.»

But David Cameron and Nick Clegg had to rely on Labour votes to secure approval of the legislation, however, as the coalition suffered its largest ever rebellion in the 22:00 vote.

Can you name one piece of anti-union legislation that the last Labour government repealed in thirteen years of power?

In 1992, Labour published its Right to Information Bill: shadow home secretary Roy Hattersley promised that it would be the first piece of legislation introduced by a new Labour government.

Is there any way we can get a guarantee from Labour that there'll be no more of this type of legislation once back in?

If it is passed in its current form, Labour predicts the legislation will cut the party's funding by # 8 million a year.

Hence New Labour attempted no substantive challege to the outcome of Thatcher's privatisation agenda; yet at the same time the key features of the 1960s «permissive society» - e.g. legislation on divorce, abortion and homosexuality - remained largely in place during the long Tory years, despite vile aberations such as Section 28 and the laughable «Back to Basics» campaign.

It goes without saying that Conservatives in Westminster will fight Labour every step of the way as the legislation passes through both Houses and let us be in no doubt, Labour are going to have a very difficult time, as it is a huge abuse of process to ram nakedly political legislation through Parliament so close to an election.

Keir Starmer says Labour will try to rewrite Brexit legislation, if it is rejected in Parliament, to avoid leaving the EU without a deal.

In 2008 Harriet Harman — surely the most influential militant feminist politician of her generation — introduced a piece of legislation which hadn't been trailed in the Labour party's 2005 election manifestIn 2008 Harriet Harman — surely the most influential militant feminist politician of her generation — introduced a piece of legislation which hadn't been trailed in the Labour party's 2005 election manifestin the Labour party's 2005 election manifesto.

Although there are more Conservative peers than Labour ones, the Government is well short of having a majority in the Upper House, leaving it vulnerable to defeat when more Brexit legislation comes before parliament.

Finally in the negotiations Labour were unwilling to make significant compromises in our direction on matters of real importance to us, such as the repeal of the legislation on identity cards.

It was the Social Liberal Forum that first drew attention to the flaws in this unnecessary and dangerous legislation, before the Sheffield conference a year ago, long before Labour or anyone else.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

The legislation was given a second reading by MPs, as Labour backed the principle of the reforms, but its progress was halted as the opposition sided with Tory rebels in refusing to back a timetable necessary to prevent the Bill being talked out.

And yes it does mean looking at tax again but also, a freer labour market, the hiring and firing proposals to make sure that young people aren't turned away from jobs because of the very onerous social employment protection legislation in this country, so we should say to the Liberals on things like that which they are blocking, «Listen we are in a real hole now.

This Bill is the nastiest piece of legislation in a long time, even compared to the depths to which New Labour sank in the early - 2000s anti-asylum hysteria.

- Certainly my view is that Labour should offer and advocate legislation and a referendum on AV + and expect its MPs to back that as a confidence measure, and that the government and party leadership would advocate a yes (with a small number of rebels no doubt on the no side in the referendum itself).

The vote in 2007 was itself an FPTP vote on the future of the Lords, rather than a preferential vote, and I remember it being couched in no uncertain terms at the time as 100 % being the obstreperous option that would result in Lords reform progressing the slowest; indeed, despite wide - ranging support in the Commons for 100 % elected Lords, the Labour government indeed made no progress whatsoever on such legislation.

Speaking on the BBC, Labour's shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint said the party would pass legislation to «reset the market» in their first two years.

Even leaving aside the issue of Lords reform (where they were not formally defeated but withdrew the legislation in the face of certain defeat) they had previously gone down to defeat in December 2011 on the motion that the House had considered the economy — as a result of an old fashioned Labour ambush, with Labour MPs hiding until enough Conservative MPs had gone home.

Indeed, when Danny Alexander, Chris Huhne, David Laws and I met Adonis and the rest of the Labour team, they wouldn't even commit to supporting legislation on alternative voting, despite Labour being the only party that had such a proposal in its manifesto.

The DUP, which is targeting 10 seats this time, is pragmatic about its partnerships and famous for driving hard bargains: it propped John Major up against Conservative rebels in the 1990s but also saved Labour from defeat over anti-terrorism legislation two years ago.

Labour's new Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith marked his first appearance in the role in a House of Commons debate with a withering attack on the UK Government's programme of legislation.

It may surprise the Home Secretary to know that the whole Labour party, including the current and former Prime Minister, voted against that legislation on the grounds that it did not go far enough in liberalising the situation and still applied the criminal law to far too much information.

After a debate, the 129 delegates passed Hardie's motion to establish «a distinct Labour group in Parliament, who shall have their own whips, and agree upon their policy, which must embrace a readiness to cooperate with any party which for the time being may be engaged in promoting legislation in the direct interests of labour.&Labour group in Parliament, who shall have their own whips, and agree upon their policy, which must embrace a readiness to cooperate with any party which for the time being may be engaged in promoting legislation in the direct interests of labour.&labour.»

The Labour leadership candidate will say she has received legal advice suggesting the legislation would undermine freedom of association as set out in article 11 of the European convention on human rights.

Speaking in the House of Lords during the second reading of the trade union bill on Monday, Labour's Lord Mendelsohn, who is a shadow business minister, said the proposed legislation was a «clear attempt to defenestrate the Labour party's finances», describing it as «extraordinarily partisan, vindictive and selective».

Carwyn Jones has been an outstanding leader of Welsh Labour and First Minister for more than 8 years, and I was his colleague and Minister in his Government for 15 years, securing pioneering legislation in housing, social services, health, trade union rights and the environment.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

Labour will also remove the loophole that exists in current legislation, which allows a significant number of schools to not install sprinklers.