Sentences with phrase «labour standards which»

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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.

Comparison: standard care, which involved shared antenatal care from a GP and hospital midwives, labour and birth and postnatal hospital care from hospital midwives.

For Ken there were a series of negatives which he never really overcame, including, the increasing unpopularity of Labour, and the feud with Andrew Gilligan and the Evening Standard.

It is heartening to see a group of Labour bloggers to try and improve standards and to publicise the code of conduct to which they expect to be held.

[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.

«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.»

If this is not possible, then a Labour - led coalition with the Liberals would be preferable to a Tory government or a Tory - Lib coalition — for the same reason that this gives the working class a slightly better relationship of forces within which to resist the assault on its living standards which will be unleashed by any government arising from the current election.

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.

The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.

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 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.

The Migration Advisory Committee was established by the Government to advise on shortage occupations, to which the standard Resident Labour Market Test would not be applied whenever a UK employer wished to bring a worker from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) into the UK under the points - based system.

Corbyn's earlier apology in the pages of the Evening Standard did represent progress, but the Board and JLC said: «Words in letters and newspaper articles will never be enough... it is action by which the Jewish community will judge him and the Labour party.»

He stumbles a bit and takes long pauses, all of which come across as highly amateurish to me, but the standard Corbyn health warning applies: what most journalists see as amateurish in the Labour leader is regarded as refreshingly authentic by his supporters.

Barnardo's, which has previously been extremely critical of the Labour government's immigration policy, is being drafted in to ensure welfare standards once families have their lost asylum appeal.

The parliamentary standards commissioner, John Lyon, announced that he would investigate a complaint about the former defence secretary lodged by Labour MP John Mann, after Mann asked him to examine allegations that Fox allowed Werritty to live rent - free in his London flat, which allowed him to run a business from a property funded by parliamentary allowances.

John Mann, the Labour MP who lodged the original complaint about Miller, has been highly critical after the standards committee, which includes 10 MPs and three non-voting lay members, recommended that Miller should repay # 5,800 in expenses.

Labour and the Conservatives» representatives on the committee on standards in public life, which has spent the last year coming up with proposals to remove big money from politics, both issued dissenting notes making clear that they weren't happy at all.

His standard rhetorical technique when talking about Her Majesty's Opposition is the finger - jab of doom, a gesture of condemnation which was again and again inflicted on Labour like some sort of ultimate weapon.

Monday's YouGov for the Standard will determine london media momentum in the run up to Thursday... Livingstone all over the media doing his Hillary tearful human frailty act... We are starting from a huge huge base in the locals, most of which take place in labour heartlands... And we always **** up bye - elections.

Ed Miliband identified the key areas where Labour would make a difference: the NHS; a recovery which lifted living standards for everyone; the next generation doing better than their parents; immigration and a clear contrast with UKIP; and a stable economy.

Crime fell by 18 per cent during Howard's years as Home Secretary — setting a standard of toughness which his Labour successors tried hard to emulate.

Under Labour voters have had to cope with rising house prices (up 160 % in 10 years) and homes which fail to meet the Welsh Housing Quality Standard imposed in 2002.

The prime minister went into a standard denunciation of Labour's economic policies which she said were not «kind» or «fair» to anybody - but the questions about Windrush were far from over as an SNP MP, Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable and a furious Yvette Cooper kept up the pressure on her (see below)

Labour highlighted that it had already announced its own plans for the local supervision of standards, which would apply to all state - funded schools.

More recently, the IPA has been the driving force behind the establishment of a number of new non-profit front groups, including the Australian Environment Foundation - which campaigns for weaker environmental laws - Independent Contractors of Australia - which campaigns for an end to workplace safety laws and a general deregulation of the labour market, and the ironically named Owner Drivers Australia, which campaigns against safety and work standard for truck drivers.

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.

If she is fired, even one day before her leave begins, provincial ministries of labour, which enforce employment standards, will not intervene.

Law societies only have so much control and power over these labour markets, which is why many of the larger structural and experiential issues in legal practice may be properly addressed simply by applying existing societal standards to the legal industry as well.

Other employment standards regimes (for example, the Canada Labour Code, which applies to federally regulated employers) do include dependent contractors.

The Ontario Ministry of Labour regulates and enforces the employment standards act, which sets out laws for discrimination against pregnant employees.

A labour arbitrator said that it was, but the Court (unanimous on this point) easily rejected that view, again without addressing either the question of the standard of review or the administrative decision - maker's reasoning (though the majority did discuss it at length on the other issue in the case, which concerned the interpretation of a collective agreement).

These fundamental labour standards conventions provide the framework within which wages and working conditions are determined in member countries that have ratified the conventions.

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it is good to review the labour standards applicable to statutory general holidays like Labour day and Thanksigiving day (which will fall on October 10, 2011 this year) for the province of Qlabour standards applicable to statutory general holidays like Labour day and Thanksigiving day (which will fall on October 10, 2011 this year) for the province of QLabour day and Thanksigiving day (which will fall on October 10, 2011 this year) for the province of Québec.

Sean has particular experience of employment disputes which raise questions of private international law, human rights and International Labour Organization standards.

Nor is the direction in which I see North American labour standards headed.

First, Canadian employers are subject to provincial or federal labour and employment laws, which set out minimum standards for virtually all employment relationships.

It's fair to say that employers across Ontario were prepared for the provincial government to introduce at least some labour reforms as part of the Changing Workplaces Review, which put everything from the province's employment standards to human rights legislation under the microscope.

As both the constitution and the relevant jurisprudence make plain, there are some industries over which the federal government has jurisdiction to pass laws concerning labour and employment standards.

The Canada Labour Code («CLC») sets out minimum standards with which federally - regulated employers must comply.

In the absence of changes to provincial or territorial employment / labour standards legislation, an employer faced with a request by an employee to grant an extended maternity / parental leave to match the period in which the employee is entitled to EI benefits for 18 months, may have to decline the request or accommodate the employee.

The closure, which had been announced the day an arbitrator was appointed to resolve an impasse in negotiations for a first collective agreement with the union certified for that establishment, led to a series of proceedings based on various sections of the Labour Code, CQLR, c. C ‑ 27 («Code»), and the Act respecting labour standards, CQLR, c. N ‑ 1.1 («A.L.S.&raLabour Code, CQLR, c. C ‑ 27 («Code»), and the Act respecting labour standards, CQLR, c. N ‑ 1.1 («A.L.S.&ralabour standards, CQLR, c. N ‑ 1.1 («A.L.S.»).

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.

In a recent blog post, we wrote about Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act which seeks to amend Ontario's existing employment standards and labour relations legislation.