Sentences with phrase «of more labour»

The net result is an effective stripping out of the more labour - and time - intensive elements of legal work.

Advising those looking to get a new face in the Commons, Osland states: «The top priority for the labour movement right now is to secure the election of more Labour MPs at the next general election.

Not exact matches

Businesses large and small have been making the case that they can't afford paying more for labour going back to when laws were first proposed to curb the use of seven year - olds in coal mines or put an end to 16 - hour workdays.

The nation's biggest labour market has more people working at low wages than any other big economic engine of Canada (Quebec, B.C., Alberta)

First, it allows companies in smallish countries such as Canada to expand their markets and get more out of their investments in labour and capital.

Squeezing more hours out of workers is a short - term fix to labour shortages for some employers.

This means there are more young people simply out of the labour force.

The campaign to abolish the trans - Atlantic slave trade began more than two centuries ago, and forced labour is prohibited by two 20th - century conventions — the more recent International Labour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratlabour is prohibited by two 20th - century conventions — the more recent International Labour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratLabour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratLabour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratified.

Labour has said it will raise income taxes on people earning more than # 80,000 ($ 103,152) a year, promising no increases for the other 95 % of taxpayers.

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 %.

Fuelled by a low peso and cheap labour costs, Mexico's booming manufacturing industry has already overtaken Canada's in terms of the dollar value of exports to the U.S. Indeed, Canada is contending with more than just low oil prices.

Card is ranked No. 36 on Research Papers in Economics» (RePEc) list of most commonly cited economists; and Google Scholar indicates one of his papers on education and the labour market has received even more citations than the famous Card - Krueger study.

Perhaps most important, an increased focus on innovation could also counter the relatively high cost of Canadian labour and the impact of the more valuable dollar on export levels.

The four main anxiety points he hears about: taxation and budgets; changes to labour laws; more environmental regulation; and changes to resource industries» use of Crown land.

And though she can both tidy the house and do the dishes more quickly than he can, they're able to achieve a more efficient division of labour overall by applying the notion of comparative advantage to their chore list.

The pact's intellectual property measures will protect CGI's proprietary technology, says company spokesman Lorne Gorber, while the enhanced mobility of skilled labour would allow it to more easily move workers across the Atlantic.

Together with VW's home state of Lower Saxony, labour representatives hold more than half of the 20 seats on the group's supervisory board that ratifies key decisions on investment, plant closures and executive appointments.

A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.

Social media is fuelling a fundamental shift in labour relations and corporate communications, and is showing it can do more than just complicate negotiations — it can affect control of major business announcements like divestments, layoffs, mergers and acquisitions.

An hour of an American worker's labour, for example, produces far more output than an hour of a Chinese worker's labour.

Of course, past some threshold, when labour is more productive, employers may decide they need less of iOf course, past some threshold, when labour is more productive, employers may decide they need less of iof it.

Some variations in labour rules aside, the Canadian and U.S. regulatory regimes are actually more closely aligned than they are with other parts of the world, which is good news for major sharing economy companies.

Machines and tools of various kinds can make labour more productive, and more productive labour is more valuable.

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

Though thick, lavishly illustrated Sunday papers became popular in the United States during the late 19th century as a form of weekend leisure, religious pressure to ban labour and trade on Sundays assured that Saturday papers remained the more popular weekend reading in Canada — something cemented by the passing of the federal Lord's Day Act in 1906.

But North Americans» reliance on inexpensive labour and products makes that an unlikely prospect, according to others: «Until our insatiable desire for cheap goods begins to wane, we will learn of more Foxconn situations,» said another respondent.

As you can see, more than two - thirds of NHL teams either maintained or increased home attendance following the labour disruption.

The case raises an array of labour relations and employment law questions that will surely be answered in the weeks and months ahead as more information comes to light.

I don't think the Bank of Canada should be any hurry to remove the monetary stimulus that's currently in place: There is still some slack in the labour market — particularly among youths — and inflation has been undershooting the Bank's target for more than a year now.

To add to the uncertainty, Prime Minister Theresa May's handling of the negotiations could cost her her job — she could be replaced by a more «hardline» Tory leader or the Labour Party's leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

(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.)

Add in all the perks of producing at home — such as eliminating exchange rate uncertainty, lower chances of supply chain disruptions, a more plentiful supply of qualified labour and the synergies that develop when the R&D guys can easily chat with factory floor employees — and the overall costs of building a new factory in the U.S. or China are roughly equal.

The nature of labour is indeed changing, but rather than unions being the solution, more and more people are discovering self - starting to be the answer.

Capital and labour have no loyalty to their province of residence, so investment — and income — will continue to leak westward if McGuinty and Quebec Premier Jean Charest don't become more proactive.

«And despite the overwhelming evidence that one's field of study is the most important factor determining labour market outcomes, today's students have not gravitated to more financially advantageous fields in a way that reflects the changing reality of the labour market.»

That's a big number — more than 10 % of the Canadian labour force.

A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

Their commitment to domestic manufacturing is more than feel - good philosophy — the company's wares are big and bulky (read: expensive to ship), and, since 95 % of its business is in North America, the reduced logistics expenses of local production offset any premiums on labour costs.

Unemployment, measured in a different survey, edged down to 7.7 % from 7.9 % in January and, for once, not just because more Americans gave up the job search: 170,000 said they had found employment, meaning those who dropped out of the labour force were less than half the total.

Since more than half of the 2012 — 13 season was salvaged, the labour mess will ultimately cost Canada less than $ 900 million, according to a BMO Capital Markets report.

More than half of the 243 employers in the province permitted to hire temporary foreign workers at minimum wage over a 10 - month period ended in June were in the food - service business, the Alberta Federation of Labour found recently through a freedom - of - information request.

More than 40 years ago, the Magna founder decided his company would experience higher productivity and less labour strife — and, as a result, faster growth — if its workers got some of the financial benefits of strong performance.

While it's a stretch to blame all their problems on labour - market rigidity, a deliberate lack of employment flexibility has certainly made it more difficult for them to adjust to changing circumstances.

It turns out that this may be one of those rare cases where Canadian data are richer than American data: the Labour Force Survey has been asking about job tenure since 1976, and we can focus on more tightly - defined age groups.

This may be a more reliable gauge of the extent of labour market weakening than employment or unemployment.

Similarly, throughout the 1987 - 1995 period, purchasers required more than 350 weeks of labour to finance their mortgage on an average Canadian home.

She reported that Labour's George Brown had complained to her that «the unions had been falling more and more under the control of left - wing militancy.»

Since 2007 (with the exception of 2009), purchasers of residential properties again necessitate more than 400 weeks (or eight years) of labour time to make all their mortgage payments.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

Current and recent buyers need to devote many more weeks of labour time to the financing of their home than their predecessors.