Sentences with phrase «labour rules about»

There are currently no federal labour rules about drug and alcohol testing outside the military and successive governments from the late 1980s have stayed away from the issue.

Not exact matches

Coles says its «preliminary analysis» is that the proposed order could increase transport costs by about 25 per cent or $ 300 million a year, but does not break this down between labour and rules costs.

But there are various hybrid methods too: for example, there could still be rules about who can stand (eg being a party member for a year or whatever); there could be a nomination process within party structures; and then a vote open to either the general public or to anybody nominating themselves as a supporter I am not sure - in practice - whether there is much difference between an «anybody can come along» and «you have to say «I'm Labour».

New labour started to go down hill on Labours second term, but the Tories were in such a mess, now of course we know that labour had done deals about the leadership with that idiot Brown wanting to rule.

Surely what you mean is «Ken may well employ sophistry to claim that he is not technically in breach of party rules, because saying that the candidate should not have been dropped, walking around for the TV cameras with the rival candidate (and having a quick chat about why the Labour candidate) did not in fact entail an explicit «vote Rahman» public statement (even though the whole point was to convey precisely that impression to any sentient being).

The switch appears to be largely due to Labour supporters worried about the prospect of five more years of Conservative rule.

When asked about whether the Conservatives should match Labour's «big strides» on increasing women's representation through all - women shortlists, Morgan - in her first comments on the issue since taking on her new job - did not rule the option out.

That the Labour party should so loudly trumpet its contempt for personal privacy and the presumption of innocence, parading its violation of the European Court on Human Rights ruling on DNA retention as one of the top six reasons to vote for it, tells you everything you need to know about its attitude to civil liberties and the rule of law.

The new Chancellor, George Osborne, in his June 2010 emergency Budget speech, was scathing about Labour's fiscal rules.

Speaking in the aftermath of the election results, he called on Labour's ruling National Executive Committee «not to rush our election», saying there was time for a «brutal post-mortem» about Labour's «underlying philosophy and thinking».

The only good thing about it, as plotters they're f ****** useless,» McDonnell said, shortly after Labour's National Executive ruled that Corbyn will automatically be placed on the ballot.

Woolas has since been stripped of his seat in parliament by a special election court, which ruled that he knowingly made false statements about his Lib Dem opponent, and suspended from the Labour Party.

After weeks of questions about a Labour - SNP deal, Ed Miliband has formally ruled out a post-election coalition with Nicola Sturgeon's party.

Speaking following the resignation of Labour leader Ed Miliband the politician ruled out taking on the leadership role himself but said there was a need for the party to think about how they appeal to the public in the wake of Thursday's election night defeat.

Eluned Parrott, Welsh Liberal Democrat AM, has raised concerns about the democratic process in the National Assembly suggesting the Welsh Labour Government could manipulate the rules to railroad through legislation.

He did not rule out a return to Westminster politics but was nonchalant about rejoining the Labour party.

Welsh Labour has won its battle to become a more autonomous party, able to make its own rules about how it chooses its leader and selects its candidates, including those standing to become MPs.

The repeated Blairite challenges to Gordon Brown did make matters even worse for Labour and the time to change the rules is now, when a challenge isn't about to happen.

The Labour MPs who wrote to Mrs May are concerned about her apparent willingness to fall back on World Trade Organisation rules if she does not get the deal she wants with the EU.

On the opposite page (Report, 12 May) you talk of «Labour's past failure to reform the Lords» in a report about some hypothetical plan of Clegg's, while Labour actually ended hundreds of years of rule by aristocracy.

Ms Abrahams first entered Parliament in 2010, winning the Oldham East and Saddleworth by - election after the election of Labour MP Phil Woolas was ruled void over false statements he made about a rival candidate.

Savouring a cheap pint the day after the Conservative party ended Labour's eight decade rule in Copeland, the lifetime Labour voters expressed antipathy towards Jeremy Corbyn and deep disillusionment about politics in general.

Meanwhile, even some leftwing Labour MPs are privately enthusiastic about the Lib Dems» success, convinced a hung parliament should give them leverage they have been denied under New Labour rule — as well as the chance to make common cause with the Lib Dems» radical wing.

Spencer Livermore, Labour's general election campaign director in 2015, has said that John McDonnell's announcement about fiscal rules is «unlikely to give us credibility».

Talking about issues that affected his members such as terms and conditions and Sunday trading rules, he said people needed a Labour government.

Worse still, in the concluding paragraph of the Labour First motion we are told that the party should not be «distracted by internal dispute or concern about future rule changes.»

There is a great deal of indignation among Labour's ruling elites about the Tory - Lib Dem government's plans for boundary reform.

Lord Bach himself acknowledged that Labour helped to erode the consensus about the need for legal aid and access to justice, and The Law Society told Labour's Access to Justice Commission that the rule of law is undermined if people can not exercise their right to access justice.

There can be discussion about whether or not the rules are appropriate, or strict enough, or are effective in protecting the Canadian labour market, but when the employer and Service Canada all play by the rules, we can't question the validity of the decision.

The Union filed a grievance about the policy and the Labour Arbitration Board ruled that the policy was justified based on evidence of drug and alcohol use by Suncor employees (at paras 3 - 4).

So tweeted the former Labour MP and barrister David Lock QC about the seeming equanimity of our present lord chancellor at the series of vicious and personal press attacks on our judiciary following the ruling of the High Court on the Art 50 litigation.