Sentences with phrase «making public sector contracts»

The claim earlier today began a confrontation between Labour and the government over whether making public sector contracts conditional on the living wage being paid is legal under EU law.

Not exact matches

The British government assured employees working on the company's public - sector contracts that they'd be paid, but no such promises were made to workers on Carillion's contracts in the private sector.

And just like private - sector unions, the public - sector unions will make contracts with their employer (the government) regarding a whole host of HR issues, negotiate renewal of those contracts, and potentially strike if they can't agree on a contract.

The Coalition Agreement makes five key pledges on public sector procurement, including a pledge to award 25 % of government contracts to SMEs.

The Cuomo campaign is very sensitive to possibly being labled «anti-union», and so is making a clear distinction between private unions that, as one source explained to me, «represent real working people», and public sector unions whose expensive contracts and pensions and refusals to agree to give - backs has labled them special interest No. 1 in many minds.

The fact that teaching jobs were shed after these recessions were officially over should not be surprising, given that school budgets are set, teacher contracts are made, and federal and state funding are allocated ahead of time, causing the public - school sector to respond to tough economic times more slowly than the private sector.

The decline of defined benefit pension plans outside of the public sector, coupled with the rise of self - employment, contract work and precarious, part - time labour have made saving for retirement more challenging — and more important — than ever.

In this connection, Nova Scotia's Personal Information International Disclosure Protection Act (PIIDPA) also impacts on private sector organizations and employers who contract with a public body to provide services involving personal information transferred or made available to them by that public body.