Sentences with phrase «over social legislation»

Ed Miliband supports giving back more control to national parliaments, and for the UK this must include control over social legislation like working hours and agency workers.

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Over a quarter of a century ago he was editing a paper on race relations and social legislation.

The discussion highlighted the need for a substantive parliamentary debate on the current abortion legislation since medical science and practice is raising serious questions over when the foetus becomes viable outside the womb, the current twenty - four week limit for «social» abortion and the growing number of doctors in the UK who are refusing to perform abortions because of the aforementioned.

Also, the Book of Deuteronomy is, per se, eloquent testimony to the reality of the movement, for, though it purports to be a «second law,» it was in reality a revision of the ancient social legislation that in considerable part Israel had taken over from the Canaanites.

«We have more than enough law to deal with potential criminal offences on social media - the problem is that they are scattered over legislation placed on the statute book between 1861 to 2003, which leads to confusion and inconsistency.

KINGSTON — Ulster County Executive Michael Hein signed legislation on Monday approved by the county legislature that codifies the county's intention to absorb the cost of the state - mandated Safety Net social services program over a three - year period.

This upshot was an initial media blackout on an hours - long sit - in protest by Democratic lawmakers over gun control legislation, which had coalesced on social media around the hashtag #NoBillNoBreak.

Ms. Mark - Viverito, a Democrat, also said the City Council would pass legislation over the next year to block federal immigration agents from entering «private areas on city property and offices where New Yorkers receive social services» without a warrant or a court order.

Over 100 local governments across the United States have passed legislation in recent years that either bans or limits how long a dog may be chained, recognizing that existing animal welfare laws are outdated and that dogs are intelligent, social, active animals that suffer greatly if kept chained or penned for their lives.

Over the past year, legislation to expand Maryland's RPS law gained support from a broad base of faith, labor, health, social justice, and environmental constituencies — including the NAACP, Maryland Working Families, SEIU, seven Maryland bishops and top ecumenical leaders.

The conservatives (denialists) in a society see themselves as being near the top of the heap, mechanisms that bring about major social changes are likely to be bad for their position, in comparison the liberals (alarmists) see such mechanisms as an opportunity to bring about social change to their advantage, examples of how conservatives fight against such changes can be seen all over the place, from giving women the vote, to civil rights legislation, to gay marriage, etc..

To boil all of this down somewhat, in my view our legislation on domestic relations does in fact tend to yield generally fair results for most people most of the time, arguments over the correctness of social policy aside.

Cambridge Analytica whistle blower lost job with Michael Ignatieff over data - harvesting in 2009: Liberal source, National Post Political staffers split on whether harassment legislation will work: survey, Globe and Mail OPP charge five young people in separate investigations into social - media threats against schools, Toronto Star

Part 2 of the Welfare Reform Bill, as it stood on 19 March 2009, at the end of its passage through the House of Commons, contains provisions whose purpose is to allow disabled people to have similar influence over a range of social welfare services as they currently have over services provided under the community care legislation.

How does Ontario's workers» compensation system help or hinder the protection of injured workers — immediately and over time — against negative economic, social, physical and mental health consequences of injury and how legislation, policies, programs and practices can best support injured workers?.