Sentences with phrase «more human labour»

Therefore, renewable energy requires more machinery, and / or more human labour to turn that ambient energy into something useful.

Not exact matches

Industry and civil groups in both Europe and America have proven more engaged in their approach to labour, environmental and human rights concerns in the textile and apparel industries.

(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.)

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

Although all human activity, labour and consumption no less than prayer or friendship, aim ultimately at the one good of serving God, different activities are more suited for different specks or aspects.

It was always immoral to ask more by way of interest than the basic, overall value of the fruits of the earth, or the maximum output of honest human labour.

On civil liberty and criminal justice, they have remained true to liberal values and human rights in ways that the other parties, Labour more than the Tories in some respects, have not.

«For months Labour has urged the Government to do more to raise Britain's concern over human rights in Sri Lanka in the run up to the summit,» Mr Alexander said.

A notorious pair of man - eating lions that teamed up to terrorize Kenyan labour camps more than 100 years ago did not have the same taste for human flesh, a new study suggests.

Covenant labours in the shadow of earlier films and has been crudely bolted together by screenwriters John Logan and Dante Harper with derivative action set pieces that give birth to a new hybrid of extra-terrestrial nasty — the neomorph — with translucent milky skin and a gait more akin to humans.

Human rights abuses against ethnic civilians, such as forced labour, rape, pillage, land grabbing, and exploitation were first reported in ethnic areas the 1970s and 1980s, after which more than 150,000 people8 had fled to Thailand to seek refuge in camps by 20109.

Globally, the International Labour Organization estimates over 20.9 million victims of human trafficking (more than the total populations of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia combined).

With Baby's got the Wedgwood Blues the idea of luxury is undercut through the «shonky» finish of the objects, their deliberate imperfection draws our attention to the labour entailed in producing these familiar domestic items; they become more human because of it.»

This means using software systems as well as low ‐ cost human labour to provide cheaper and more efficient legal services.

But human labour's monopoly in more complex areas, like the trucking industry, is now up for review.

Therefore it is all the more surprising that it has been omitted from Labour's list of «top 50» achievements in favour of the inclusion of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

This frees up human professionals to do the deeper intellectual labour that is more valuable to their clients.

After working in labour relations and human resources for a number of years, I realized that what I could accomplish with a law degree was more valuable to me and would enable me to make more of a difference in the lives of others.

More recently, a coalition of Canadian human rights, development, labour and faith groups, the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability, has launched a campaign for strengthened corporate accountability, Open for Justice.

For more information concerning Silvera, or to ask questions with respect to human rights awards and ways to mitigate risk, you can contact any member of the BLG Labour & Employment Group, who would be pleased to assist you.

Statistics indicate that persons with disabilities, in comparison to non-disabled persons, have less education, are more likely to be outside the labour force, face much higher unemployment rates, and are concentrated at the lower end of the pay scale when employed; see Minister of Human Resources Development, Persons with Disabilities: A Supplementary Paper (1994), at pp. 3 - 4, and Statistics Canada, A Portrait of Persons with Disabilities (1995), at pp. 46 - 49.

Stephen joined Whitten & Lublin Employment & Labour Lawyers in 2016 to continue his litigation practice, with a focus on the more complex employment law disputes, including sophisticated dismissal claims and human rights matters, particularly those that are not «slam dunks».

I think we're going to see not only more of a shift to human rights cases, but potentially a call for a change to the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000 to include the right of reinstatement following dismissal, similar to what is already provided for in section 240 of the Canada Labour Code.

With summer vacation season now in full swing, workers should know what vacation benefits they're entitled to, says Toronto labour, employment, and human rights lawyer — read more...

Part of the solution to NAFTA's labour problems are more government - funded educational initiatives to help transition to workforce to adapt to a primarily service economy, focusing on careers that would also address environmental and human rights concerns.

I realized yesterday that if one selects a number of databases on CanLII from the Database Search screen (e.g., all decisions from labour and employment tribunals or all decisions from human rights tribunals), the resulting URL when clicking on «Search» with a «blank» search is a stable URL that can be sent to a user or linked on an intranet to, in essence, create a customized «global» database search... [more]

Authors from across the country each take on a famous labour case in a series of case studies, from early cases about constitutional jurisdiction (Snider; John East), though picketing classics (Hersees; Harrison v. Carswell), to more recent employment law and human rights milestones (Wallace; Meioren).

«There's no question that officers who feel they have been treated unfairly recognize that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario is a more open and transparent process than the (labour) grievance process,» Champ said.

Does this mean that the end result may need a bit more human input than some of the other AI systems out there which seek to absorb as much of the human labour as possible into the automated process (at least once the training is completed)?