Sentences with phrase «labour standards in»

China's ambassador has firmly rejected a key pillar of the Trudeau government's trade agenda, branding its attempts to entrench labour standards in a free trade pact as a non-starter for his country.

The minimum wage is one of the basic labour standards in Canada.

Al Gore and David Blood, Generation Investment: «Stranded assets are those that would be unprofitable under certain scenarios, which include the enforcement of a fair price on carbon and water, or improved regulation of labour standards in emerging economies.

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 Fair Labor Association (FLA) and Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production standard (WRAP) both grew out of U.S. market reactions to labour abuses in Central America during the 1990s, while the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) and Ethical Trade Initiative (ETI) worked to address early European concerns with the fair treatment of workers across North Africa, India and Bangladesh.

Or leave it in the ground and get it from some other place that doesn't have as good environmental, labour, and human rights standards.

Even the Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Québec, the $ 10.1 - billion gold standard of Canada's labour - sponsored funds (it also invests in more mature sectors of the economy), has a 30 - year annualized return of just 3.8 %.

In the past, though, Canadian officials have expressed reservations around the issues of labour standards, environmental protections and state - owned enterprises.

Second, we can not expect companies operating in places like Bangladesh or China to adhere to Canadian labour standards.

(If you expand your definition of «dirty» to include resources from countries that abuse human rights, disregard labour standards or fund terrorist organizations, as conservative commentator Ezra Levant does in his new tome, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the range of options shrinks even more.)

Citing its small in - country footprint, a Gildan spokesperson said via e-mail, «Given that we own and operate our manufacturing facility in Bangladesh, which represents a very small portion of our total production capacity, we can directly implement our strict internal code of conduct and international labour standards.

«I never hear talk about measures that would encourage upward harmonization of labour or environmental standards... tax measures that would prevent corporations from engaging in transfer pricing or discourage shifting profits to tax havens.

B.C.'s child labour standards are slated to become the weakest in Canada.

Vietnam's has recently jumped from low to lower - middle income, and policy makers are now facing questions about avoiding the «middle - income trap» and generating economic growth without increased exploitation of natural resources and cheap labour that would result in deteriorating environmental and social standards.

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.

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.

The letter echoes the demands trade justice advocates have long called for: transparent and democratic negotiations; strong and enforceable labour rights, including for migrant workers; protection of public services; enforceable environmental standards; and the right to regulate in the public's interest.

The fiduciary standard is getting a lot of attention in the United States once again as the Department of Labour's rule requiring advisors to act in the best interests of their clients was denied by an appeals court

It comes amid mounting concern over deteriorating workplace standards in Australia, including underpayments, the exploitation of temporary foreign workers and the misuse of contracting and labour - hire arrangements.

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

In all standard - care options, women were cared for by whichever midwives and doctors were rostered for duty when they came into the hospital for labour, birth and postnatal care.

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.

Shaven - headed Scouser Nuttall recites the standard Ukip talk of going after Labour voters in Northern England but the social conservative, a supporter of judicial executions and opponent of abortions, will struggle to walk the talk..

After 1945, Labour became the party of the welfare state, understood to mean equal rights and standards everywhere in Britain, and accordingly hostile to devolution to Scotland or anywhere else.

But despite this rejection of austerity amid the biggest ever decline in living standards, the Labour Party still lost seats and lost the election.

[100] Miliband subsequently unveiled five pledges at a rally in Birmingham which would form the focus of a future Labour government, specifically identifying policies on deficit reduction, living standards, the NHS, immigration controls and tuition fees.

Some, including Chris Boffey, a former news editor of the Observer and Sunday Telegraph and one - time special adviser to the Labour government, feel that this is an example of the decline in standards at the Telegraph.

A YouGov poll for the Evening Standard showed the Conservatives would be neck - and - neck with Labour in the polls on 37 per cent of the vote if they were led by Mr Johnson.

In three of the seats I found UKIP ahead by up to six points on the standard voting intention question, and they were tied with Labour in DudleIn three of the seats I found UKIP ahead by up to six points on the standard voting intention question, and they were tied with Labour in Dudlein Dudley.

«The public will rightly take a very dim view of the Labour frontbench joining arm in arm with the likes of Jacob Rees Mogg and other Brextremists to vote for a Brexit which will cost jobs, damage living standards and leave our public services with less investment.»

Of those who said they would vote UKIP in the standard question, 8 % said they would vote Conservative when it came to their own constituency, 5 % said Labour and 5 % said they did not know what they would do.

According to him many of the reports centred on Governor Fayose's appeal to labour union leaders in the state and some contained in his media interviews, where he tried to falsify the state's debt portfolio in a manner that has become the standard practice of his regime in the bid to appeal to the striking workers.

Speaking after the ballot count, Labour leader Ed Miliband explained that his party's strategy in the run up to next year's general election is to «focus on the economy and standards of living».

But as was pointed out in last summer's Labour pamphlet on living standards, the scale of the problem to be tackled is huge.

The dramatic and continuing cuts in living standards of the majority of people in this country require serious action from a Labour government.

His call came as Labour promised to reform Parliament's standards system in the wake of controversy over the decision of a panel of MPs to overrule a watchdog's judgment on Mrs Miller.

There is now a Tory Prime Minister with a majority in Parliament with the lowest share of the popular vote ever, who presided over the longest decline in living standards, yet Labour lost seats.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said that people were relying on Labour to tackle NHS waiting times and zero - hours contracts, and to get the deficit down in a fair way while delivering real change and rising living standards.

Even by its own limited standards Labour's move to the Right failed, since the endless attempt to triangulate in search of the «floating voter» erodes trust and alienates Labour's base; 5 million lost voters over the New Labour years is testament to that.

Well in other words it was bog standard labour of old, in which we the public have no idea of what the hell is going on other then we will end up with what labour wants and Miliband thinks will win him an election or Tory Lite.

«preserves the single - member constituency link» Biggest mistake Labour ever made, making that the standard in 1947 — you seem to not be aware that multi member seats based on historic boundaries like Boroughs and Counties were the norm throughout most of the history of Parliament, it was taking that into account that led to the creation of BPr / STV.

Labour has set up a living standards and sustainability policy commission whose findings will be debated and agreed by the party's national policy forum in July.

In a package of moves hailed by Miliband's team as the most significant since John Smith's «one member one vote» shakeup in the early 1990s, the Labour party is set to introduce a code of conduct for prospective parliamentary candidates, strict spending limits and standard constituency agreements with trade unionIn a package of moves hailed by Miliband's team as the most significant since John Smith's «one member one vote» shakeup in the early 1990s, the Labour party is set to introduce a code of conduct for prospective parliamentary candidates, strict spending limits and standard constituency agreements with trade unionin the early 1990s, the Labour party is set to introduce a code of conduct for prospective parliamentary candidates, strict spending limits and standard constituency agreements with trade unions.

He said the agency conformed with the International Labour Organisation's (ILO's) set standards on employment to ensure that all beneficiaries worked in a decent and safe environment, had equal employment opportunities and treatment and also received adequate earnings while they engaged in productive work.

David Cameron and George Osborne managed to pin much of the blame for the recent recession, and the decline in living standards, on the last Labour government.

An attempt by Labour to try to make itself a movement with broader appeal is particularly acute as the parties all await a report into funding due to be published in October by the committee on standards in public life.

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school placeIn place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school placein education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school placein other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

Equally, the Labour mainstream must also face the reality that it has fallen entirely out of sync with voters north of the border, which has resulted in the SNP being the standard bearers of Scottish voters.

Labour will invest in the jobs and industries of the future, and take action to enforce a floor under employment standards across the board — so that all jobs are decent jobs.

This strategy is by now a standard attempt to appeal beyond conventional constituencies: Labour wants to be the party of capitalists as well as workers, the Conservatives desire social liberals in addition to their traditional base, and the Liberal Democrats target people who don't fit in but want to be liked.