Sentences with phrase «using forced labour»

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Several alleged forced labour may have been used in Bisha's construction.After receiving word of these allegations, Davis himself volunteered to appear before the committee via teleconference to set the record straight.

For these reasons the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Statistics Canada base their calculations on surveys: the Current Population Survey in the United States and its Canadian counterpart, The Labour Force Survey, are conducted monthly and use a sample of between 50,000 and 60,000 households to represent the working age population in each country, those 15 years of age and older.

When looking at the results of this study and trends in part - timers by industry using the Labour Force Survey, Sylvain found that six of seven industries at the bottom end of average weekly wage increases have seen an increase in the proportion of part - timers.

By the end of 1942, POWs were being used as forced labour as the Japanese war effort intensified.

«Small - scale mining is the second biggest global employer, and many of those mines force their workers to labour long hours in dirty and dangerous conditions for a pittance, whilst we enjoy the high value, glittering jewellery made using their gold.»

Others have made a move to fewer packaging SKUs, using more one - size - fits - all materials (however much as needed) so that packaging decisions can be made faster and easier by untrained labour forces.

The high cost of transport is an issue if they're to manufacture them here and export; however, Ashley says the posts can be manufactured in any country, using the country's recycled plastic, its timber and labour force.

The state of being dominated is so objectionable because on the one hand the master can use their power to extract benefits from the dominated (through their labour, for example), and because it forces the dominated into a position where they have to flatter and ingratiate themselves with their master in order to avoid their wrath.

At present, there are two principal measures of unemployment used by the Government: the International Labour Organisation (ILO) measure (the UK's version being known as the Labour Force Survey or LFS unemployment); and the Claimant Count.

Labour has vowed to use a vote on Wednesday to invoke an ancient and obscure piece of parliamentary procedure in a bid to force the move.

The best possible political use of opposition to cutting lone parent benefits was made because it was left neither to enemies of the working class to cynically exploit — specifically the Liberal Democrats — nor simply to those most affected or more minority forces in the labour movement.

On top of this, these are all seats where Labour used to have an incumbency advantage (which will have helped them at the 2010 election), but where they are now forced to cope without these resources.

After forcing Labour to endorse austerity, Osborne used his last budget speech of this parliament to suggest that he is not even that bothered about the deficit.

People are being forced to use food banks, says Labour, as Cameron describes opposition's planned price freeze as a «con»

Labour is planning to use «moral pressure» as its main weapon to force the government to reveal more about its plan for Brexit, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said.

The prime minister told Labour's national executive committee this morning he wanted to use the heavy attention attracted to the donations case to force through a shake - up of the current system.

He said Cameron's policies are close to his own vision of using market forces to improve public services, ideas rejected by Brown, who led the Labour Party to defeat in May after forcing Blair out in 2007...»

Former Labour minister Vera Baird, now an elected police commissioner, has stripped all references to policing drugs out of her plans for the Northumbria force, and Lib Dem Sarah Brown this week urged Cambridge councillors that arresting cannabis smokers was not «a good use of resources».

But she was forced to concede that the term had first been used by Labour Home Secretaty Alan Johnson in a 2010 speech.

On Wednesday night, Labour lost a bid to use parliamentary procedures to force the government to publish cabinet papers about the customs row.

Thousands of people are used as slave labour to carry military supplies, and forced to walk in front of army columns as human minesweepers.

In the Commons tomorrow, Labour will use ancient parliamentary rules to force a binding vote which could see ministers having to hand over all the papers presented to the Brexit war Cabinet on the economic effects of both options.

On Syria Labour party members divide two - to - one against airstrikes and three - to - one against the use of British ground forces in Iraq or Syria.

Labour is using one of its allotted opposition day debates in the Commons to force the vote, which is non-binding, for a three - month freeze in the face of rising household bills and transport fares as wages remain stagnant.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats will force a final vote on proposals by Labour Ministers to restrict the use of e-cigarettes in enclosed public spaces on Tuesday.

If Tory dissenters and UKIP enjoy the experience of joining forces to fight against the EU, a referendum has the potential to reconfigure the centre right, especially if Labour also succeeds in using a pro-EU, business - friendly message to recapture the middle ground.

Late last year Labour used a humble address to force a vote that obliged the government to allow MPs to see what had been described as 58 papers detailing the impact of Brexit on sections of the economy — even those these turned ou «t to be less thorough than billed.

Using a mathematical model of the global economy, the World Bank said in a 2006 report that if 14.2 million workers moved from poor to rich countries between 2001 and 2025, raising the rich countries» labour force by 3 per cent, the world's yearly wages would grow by $ 772 billion by 2025.

Using a mathematical model of the world economy, the World Bank said in a 2006 report that if 14.2 million workers moved from poor to rich countries between 2001 and 2025, raising the rich countries» labour force by 3 per cent, the world's yearly wages would grow by $ 772 billion by 2025.

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8.7 take immediate and effective measures to secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, eradicate forced labour, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms including recruitment and use of child soldiers

Source: Wyness calculations using restricted - access data from Secure Lab: SN6727 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, 1992 - 2016: Secure Access.

Source: Wyness» calculations using Secure Lab: SN6727 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, 1992 - 2016: Secure Access data.

Today, with the emergence of new forms of labour alienation and personal intrusion, deadening forces extend even further into subjective experience, making the divide between a critical and an aesthetic use of boredom ever more tenuous.

Coupled with an economy based on profit and on the games finance plays in order to profit from money itself, without a clear orientation to the production of goods, this leads to social exclusion and the new forms of slavery such as forced labour, prostitution, organ trafficking, and the use of drugs as a method of corruption.

Aside from the obvious animal rights issue, there are other problems with leather including pollution from toxic chemicals used in manufacturing, forced labour, and deforestation for cattle ranching.

The complaint also highlights the life - threatening conditions in cassiterite mines and the use of forced labour and child labour.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police («RCMP») was convicted after a trial for failing to comply with its general Canada Labour Code (CLC) duty to ensure the health and safety of its employees (officers on the front line) with appropriate «use of force» equipment and training on the equipment, to protect them from threats from «active shooters».

In October 2007, the secretary of state for justice, Jack Straw, promised the Labour Party conference that he would introduce new legislation on the use of force in self - defence and crime prevention.

Thus, flight attendants» union officials successfully used this Act to challenge the airline's age and marriage rules in labour relations and in the courts, and eventually forced airlines to drop age and marriage restrictions entirely by the end of the 1960s.

It was effected in a range of ways: sheer force; the removal of children from their families; the withdrawal of «permissive occupancy» because titles to traditional lands had been granted to others and Aboriginal people no longer provided a useful pool of cheap labour; in many cases people were induced to move «voluntarily» to settlements and missions simply to gain access to food and basic services as competing land use destroyed the resource base of traditional life.

SLA - level predictor variables will include: accessibility (ARIA +), 33 socioeconomic status (using Socio Economic Status for Areas (SEIFA) indexes, four indexes that summarise different aspects of the socioeconomic conditions of people living in an area based upon sets of social and economic information from the Australian Census35); full - time equivalent GPs; medical workers, nurses, pharmacists, Aboriginal health workers and community services workers per 10 000 population; rates of unemployment and labour force participation.