Labour's economy spokesperson on the London Assembly
said voluntary schemes would take hundreds of years to work and urged Miliband to make the living wage compulsory instead.
Not exact matches
He in fact actually
said that there could be a
voluntary scheme of traffic light labelling and then mandate it when you're making higher level health claims.
What we've
said is we've looked across the evidence, we've looked at obviously there's a
voluntary scheme in the UK, there's a couple of other European countries that have got
voluntary schemes in place as well, and they have a range of different colour - coded
schemes, some of which would look like a traditional traffic light, some that look like pie charts.
When asked if Nigerians are ready for
voluntary assets declaration, Mr. Zubair
said a lot of people have started showing interest and trust in the
scheme, which offers confidentiality and expressed belief that the sincerity of the government will arouse greater confidence in the
scheme among Nigerians.
The source
said the company introduced the
voluntary severance
scheme, VSS, to provide a window for one week in April, for persons who have served in MTN for five years and above to take up.
From what Cameron has
said so far, it's reasonable to assume that the result would be a government - facilitated
scheme run by the
voluntary sector — and it's people like The Prince's Trust who are providing input and ideas.
Mr Pickles
said that at a similar
scheme for driving licenses started as
voluntary but was eventually made compulsory across the union.
How will the new government - facilitated
voluntary scheme compare with (
say) paying more to get «green» electricity, paying Qantas more for offsets etc.?
The IATA does
say that it could support carefully designed carbon trading policies, though it prefers
voluntary agreements to regulation, and it claims that such
schemes should be restricted to carbon dioxide only, and that other emissions should be tackled by «other means» (no mention is made of what these means might be).
Central Provident Fund Commissioner
said that the
voluntary scheme was besides the mandatory pension
scheme being run by the EPFO