Sentences with phrase «of labour reforms»

This system was created as part of the Labour reforms as a concession to the hereditaries.

But Clarke pointed to a range of Labour reforms that he regarded as progressive, including the Freedom of Information and Human Rights Acts, and said that before he resigned as home secretary he had been planning to embark on a process of penal reform.

We then use that to build out two additional scenarios: one assuming a doubling of the current minimum wage plus factoring in the cost of fire and building safety improvements based on data from the Worker Rights Consortium; and another using a «living wage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demands.

I do not accept your perspective on my analysis as it did not mention the New Labour Project, nor does it show any knowledge of the Labour Reform Group and Save the Labour Party organisations which were in struggle against New Labour under Blair, and of which I was an active member.

Trevor Fisher was a member of the Labour Coordinating Committee executive 1987 - 90 and secretary of the Labour Reform Group 1995 - 2007.

Not exact matches

They called for immediate steps to reopen banks and said any deal must address debt sustainability - code for reducing Athens» crushing debt - but gave no hint of concessions from the Greek side towards its creditors» demands for deep spending cuts and far - reaching reforms of pensions and labour markets.

In their 2015 election platform, the Trudeau Liberals identified a number of items related to Employment Insurance (EI) that they would change: reversing the Harper EI reforms defining «suitable work»; reducing the waiting period for EI benefits; reducing EI premiums; introducing more flexible parental leave; providing better access to compassionate care; and increasing funding for employment and training programs managed by provinces, territories and Aboriginal labour market organizations.

Speakers making the case for why it's time to listen to the experts and Canadians — and get down to business and develop a made - in - Canada proportional representation system include Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Katelynn Northam, electoral reform campaign lead at Leadnow, Farhat Rehman of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and Annie Bérubé, director of government relations at Équiterre.

We can also expect to hear some hint about what type of reforms the government could make to Alberta's outdated labour laws in this session of the Assembly.

Policies that spur more efficient corporate restructuring can revive productivity growth by targeting three inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of «zombie» firms (low productivity firms that would typically exit in a competitive market), capital misallocation and stalling technological diffusion... As the zombie firm problem may partly stem from bank forbearance, complementary reforms to insolvency regimes are essential to ensure that a more aggressive policy to resolve non-performing loans is effective.

A coalition of community and labour organizations have come together to present their views on necessary EI reforms as part of the pre-budget process.

APEC recommends that Atlantic regulatory reform prioritize the areas with the largest economic impact and identified a number of areas that need attention, including truck transportation, labour standards, corporate registrations, safety standards and production and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Uncertainty about labour market reforms, the adequacy of pension systems and future economic conditions may also be discouraging consumers from spending, especially in Germany where these issues have received much publicity.

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.

Passage of implementing legislation for the Constitution Reform to Mexico's labour justice system has been delayed beyond the February 24 deadline as political parties jockey for advantage in the midst of an election campaign and NAFTA negotiations.

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This disruption works best when it is immediate and continuous, and would ideally include forcing the exploitative labour hire companies and complicit farmers either into reform and transparency or out of business, and prosecuting them where guilty.

That disruption is an effective tactic for reform was demonstrated in the weeks after the 4 Corners program when online grocery delivery service, Aussie Farmers Direct, dumped one of its chicken suppliers although, according to the Weekly Times, it is retaining another chicken supplier implicated in the labour market scandal.

Labour's attempts to reform libel failed to reach the statute book at the end of the last parliament after they became victims of the wash - up period.

«If we're to get a strong and balanced recovery which everyone benefits from we need Labour's plan to tackle the cost - of - living crisis and reform our economy for the long term,» he commented.

The last hour has seen the political and constitutional reform committee issue a report complaining that the government's ignoring its recommendations about going to war; Labour have put out a line on the strikes, saying they're «usually a sign of failure»; and the Institute for Government is telling us that Whitehall is leading the way in headcount reductions, with an overall reduction of 8.4 % since the comprehensive spending review in October last year.

David Cameron struggled to defend the government's NHS reforms today as Ed Miliband enjoyed one of his most successful PMQs sessions as Labour leader.

The Labour Manifesto discusses political reform in the fourth section, out of five substantive sections; the Liberal Democrats place it tenth out of eleven — and the Conservatives have no section on political reform at all.

Neither the Conservatives nor Labour have shown any interest in reforming Britain's drug laws, although there are reports of a more sympathetic response from David Cameron in recent months.

Although speculating that the approaches from his main political rivals represented the «latest wheeze by Labour and the Tories to take the best of Lib Dem ideas and call them their own,» Mr Clegg said he was willing to work with other parties on constitutional reform.

George Osborne tried to pin the blame on Labour, who supported the principle of Lords reform by not the timetable for the bill.

The comments come as Labour published a letter showing executives at PCTs threatening critics of the health and social care bill with disciplinary action if they publicly criticise the reforms.

The Conservatives have positioned themselves as the natural heirs to Tony Blair, pledging to continue the Labour leader's reforms of hospitals and schools.

«We have not been able to proceed on Lords reform, frankly, because there is opposition in parliament and the opportunism of the Labour party,» he said.

That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.

Labour will lose the next election and we will hear nothing more of electoral reform.

I may have been one of the few hacks who thought Ed Miliband's last conference speech was interesting, but the crisis in capitalism is fertile ground for Labour if he can flesh it out in a way that makes reform tangible.

Ian Austin, a former Labour whip, says he backs reform of the Lords, but believes there are «major problems» with what the government proposes.

Drawing upon evidence from the debates over healthcare reform in both the U.S. and the U.K., where Palin's propagation of the idea of death panels and Labour's insistence that Gove's reforms constituted privatisation «pure and simple» served only to confuse and scare the wider public, Thompson argued that misleading and emotive language is making political reform and compromise harder to achieve.

The recent reform of the labour market is probably not as deep as it should have been and has yet led to a general strike, taking place as this article is being written.

But this was policymaking at its best, signalling a commitment to radically reform the relationship between finance and the real economy and a determination to make Labour the party of small businesses across the nation.

That thought is why we find these ideas expressed by leading figures of political movements — like workingmen's parties, land reform movements, and labour organizations.

My old friend Kenneth O. Morgan, Labour peer as well as distinguished historian, thought we needed «action as well as conversation», and chided me for failing to put forward a shopping list of concrete proposals akin to the shopping list of global reforms proposed by Thomas Piketty in his Capital in the Twenty - first Century.

His decision to reform Labour's link with the unions was cheered by many commentators and activists on the right of the party.

Labour MPs can sit back and watch the carnage on the government side of the House, while fulfilling their manifesto commitment of voting for the general principle of Lords reform.

For instance, they struck a bargain with the Liberal Party (the so - called «Lib - Lab Pact») in a desperate bid to cling to power in 1977, by the terms of which Labour agreed to take on board certain policy proposals favoured by the Liberals, including electoral reform.

I disagree Daan, I think there is widespread hostility to electoral reform amongst much of the Labour Party membership.

The partners of the international community in the reform process in all relevant policy areas — especially agriculture, labour legislation, public services, and social security — are all segments of BiH society, not just local political elites.

I can't help feeling that if Labour had made progress on electoral reform over its 13 years of government.

For social democrats, it means reflecting on how institutional forms can be entrenched within the fabric of society, rather than swept away immediately in the wake of electoral defeat as may be the fate of Labour's social reforms in the United Kingdom.

So it makes sense for Labour to spend parliament's time up on the bill it does support — Lords reform — at the expense of the coalition's own legislative agenda.

In his letter, Duncan Smith attacked Labour for their «out - of - control» spending on welfare and their opposition to government policies like the reform of sickness benefit and work experience programmes for the young and unemployed.

16:26 - Khan is now being rather lofty himself, explaining how Labour has always been ahead of the game when it comes to reforming the Lords.

In this post-crash era, and in the wake of unregulated globalisation, Labour needs to develop a politics of belonging and a reform of capitalism that draws on the traditions of the common good and a common life.

Danny Finkelstein, The Times columnist, outlined the meaning / justification of the Cabinet reshuffle in a similar vein by suggesting you might want a division of labour between «introducing» and «implementing» reforms.