Sentences with phrase «paid labour force»

Research shows that women still earn less than men in the paid labour force, are disproportionately responsible for child and elder care within families, and are disproportionately the victims of family violence.

«Today, gen X and gen Y dads want to be involved,» says Spinks, adding, «Boomer grandmas, who would have historically provided the postpartum care for mom and new baby, are still in the paid labour force.

Not exact matches

In 1960, 24 per cent of the labour force was engaged in manufacturing — good - paying jobs, with benefits, even for those without a college education.

Ministers should tell councils not to force flood - hit families to pay their council tax, Labour has said, in its latest attempt to gain political capital out of the crisis faced by underwater Britain.

Sir Steve Bullock, the Labour mayor of Lewisham and housing spokesperson for London Councils, told politics.co.uk that more and more families were being forced into bed and breakfast accommodation, paid for by the taxpayer, as a result of the changes.

Labour's bid to force contractors to pay their employees the living wage may be illegal, Downing Street has warned.

With the party already at a financial disadvantage compared to Labour and the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats are likely to face real difficulties in getting their message across to voters — especially when attention is paid to the two main parties and emerging forces such as UKIP and the Greens.

A senior Labour backbencher is attempting to force George Osborne to deliver on a # 250 pay rise promise for up to a million public sector workers.

The sum will be yearly it's the levy that labour are after, they once asked Jack Straw to look into the levy to see if he could force the Unions to pay this up front in total.

They also address the regular complaint that the funding of higher education through taxation is unfair because it forces those doing unskilled, low - paid labour to subsidise those studying to enter the professions.

Downing Street has questioned moves by Labour to force contractors to pay their employees the living wage.

The latest Ghana Labour Force Survey Report by the Ghana Statistical Service said the men in the urban localities of the region demand as much as 1,604 cedis a month as pay.

Even before the recession Labour had allowed public sector pay to catch up with private sector pay but had not forced public sector workers to sacrifice some of the securities they received as a traditional substitute for less remuneration.

Work experience is not «forced labour» - it helps youngsters into paid jobs, argues Fraser Nelson in the Daily Telegraph

But in April 2010 Labour's «additional rate» came into force, meaning anyone earning more than # 150,000 a year had to pay 50p in every pound of income over that amount.

EMBL is forced to pay retroactive pay increases because the administrative tribunal of the Geneva - based International Labour Organization (ILO) recently ruled that the lab had violated its own staff guidelines by setting 1995 salaries too low (ScienceNOW, 3 November).

Some of these include safety & hygiene for workers, fair pay & most importantly no child or forced labour is tolerated.

Pay and employment equity, a national and universal publicly funded child care system, and labour standards to improve the conditions of part - time workers were recommended by a series of federally appointed task forces and royal commissions.

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.

A new entrant and re-entrant to the labour force is someone who in the 52 weeks before the start of the qualifying period had fewer than 490 hours of insurable employment or attachment to the labour force which can include the receipt of EI benefits, employment earnings or benefits, workers» compensation, sick pay, attendence at a training program approved by Service Canada, being on strike or lockout, calculated on the basis of 35 hours per week.

Participation in paid employment presents the best prospects for improving income and opportunities, forcing more and more parents out of the home and into the labour force.