Sentences with phrase «with labour standards»

The brand is also confident that its produce is manufactured in worker - friendly factories in accordance with the labour standards set by the European Union.

Not exact matches

The Fair Labor Association (FLA) and Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production standard (WRAP) both grew out of U.S. market reactions to labour abuses in Central America during the 1990s, while the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) and Ethical Trade Initiative (ETI) worked to address early European concerns with the fair treatment of workers across North Africa, India and Bangladesh.

And iCloud, the company's service to back up photos, video, documents and user settings over the Internet, has laboured for years to meet Apple's «It Just Works» standard without ever living up to expectations (internal frustration with the situation boiled over last fall when Apple insiders talked — anonymously — to reporter Jessica E. Lessin at tech news site The Information about the business unit's disarray).

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.

This third pillar includes raising the minimum wage in a transparent and predictable manner, improving associated employment standards legislation, and generally making sure labour laws have kept pace with what's happening in workplaces across the country.

As Prime Minister, what steps would you take — including economic sanctions — to encourage compliance of these countries with International Labour Organization standards?

The signatories of this letter warn against the potential for trade agreements like NAFTA to restrict Canada's ability to enforce its own environmental regulations, maintain labour standards, and keep jobs and pollution from leaking to other states with weaker policies.

APEC recommends that Atlantic regulatory reform prioritize the areas with the largest economic impact and identified a number of areas that need attention, including truck transportation, labour standards, corporate registrations, safety standards and production and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Our manufacturing facilities implement some of the highest labour standards in the world, and our local production allows us to work with and give back to our community, including supporting those with multi-barriers to employment.

Governments should enact imaginative legislation protecting the breastfeeding rights of working women and establishing means for its enforcement in accordance with international labour standards.

Combined with the unique circumstances of the post-war world, the stage was set for an extended period of broad - based economic growth that could accommodate both increased profit rates for capital and higher real living standards for labour (Anderson, 1992, 310).

For Ken there were a series of negatives which he never really overcame, including, the increasing unpopularity of Labour, and the feud with Andrew Gilligan and the Evening Standard.

The onset of a long period in opposition for social democratic standard - bearers such as Labour in Britain and the SPD in Germany, coupled with continuing slow growth, high unemployment and falling unionisation, led the parties of the Socialist International into a comprehensive accommodation with neo-liberalism — albeit one wrapped in soothing social market rhetoric and homeopathic concessions at the margins.

Unlike his Labour predecessor, Lammy also has a good relationship with London's only city - wide newspaper the Evening Standard.

A recent Opinium poll for the Evening Standard showed that Labour's candidate for London mayor had a nine - point lead with just two days until the polling stations open.

A YouGov poll for the Evening Standard showed the Conservatives would be neck - and - neck with Labour in the polls on 37 per cent of the vote if they were led by Mr Johnson.

In three of the seats I found UKIP ahead by up to six points on the standard voting intention question, and they were tied with Labour in Dudley.

«The public will rightly take a very dim view of the Labour frontbench joining arm in arm with the likes of Jacob Rees Mogg and other Brextremists to vote for a Brexit which will cost jobs, damage living standards and leave our public services with less investment.»

Its interesting to see how the trendy lefties think you have scented blood with this man «s past it seems like yesterday, en passant, the Labour Party were running its anti Pole by election at Crewe, proving once and for all that its public standards fall somewhat short of Lord Haw haw.

Had Tessa Jowell won the nomination, there is a chance the Standard may have stayed neutral or even backed Labour, given editor Sarah Sands» friendship with the former culture secretary.

Labour needs to take advantage of this situation and position itself as the clear alternative to the Tories with progressive policies to raise living standards.

Faced with the immediate attacks on living standards posed by a Tory government, Labour's support did not collapse.

If this is not possible, then a Labour - led coalition with the Liberals would be preferable to a Tory government or a Tory - Lib coalition — for the same reason that this gives the working class a slightly better relationship of forces within which to resist the assault on its living standards which will be unleashed by any government arising from the current election.

There is now a Tory Prime Minister with a majority in Parliament with the lowest share of the popular vote ever, who presided over the longest decline in living standards, yet Labour lost seats.

Well in other words it was bog standard labour of old, in which we the public have no idea of what the hell is going on other then we will end up with what labour wants and Miliband thinks will win him an election or Tory Lite.

In a package of moves hailed by Miliband's team as the most significant since John Smith's «one member one vote» shakeup in the early 1990s, the Labour party is set to introduce a code of conduct for prospective parliamentary candidates, strict spending limits and standard constituency agreements with trade unions.

He said the agency conformed with the International Labour Organisation's (ILO's) set standards on employment to ensure that all beneficiaries worked in a decent and safe environment, had equal employment opportunities and treatment and also received adequate earnings while they engaged in productive work.

Meanwhile, 47 % of Labour voters were dissatisfied with Mr Corbyn, while 29 % said the same about Mrs May, according to the survey by pollsters Ipsos Mori for the Evening Standard.

An attempt by Labour to try to make itself a movement with broader appeal is particularly acute as the parties all await a report into funding due to be published in October by the committee on standards in public life.

UKIP may not have triumphed by the standards of past insurgencies, but they have done well enough to suggest that, if the euro - elections were held this spring, UKIP would be clear winners, with Labour second and the Tories third.

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

Equally, the Labour mainstream must also face the reality that it has fallen entirely out of sync with voters north of the border, which has resulted in the SNP being the standard bearers of Scottish voters.

After twelve years, the model that Labour has demonstrated it is most comfortable with involves inconsistently applied standards and virtually no accountability.

Together, the amendments will do much to bring the UK into line with the international labour standards.

So henceforth, the Labour Party will establish standard constituency agreements with each trade union so that nobody can allege that individuals are being put under pressure at local level.

BASC has welcomed the Labour Party's commitment to «promote high standards with regards to game shoots, tackle criminality, and promote sustainability» contained within their animal welfare consultation launched today

The battle with Unite, and Miliband's proposed reforms to the union relationship, are set to reduce their income by several million quid a year; the Evening Standard reports that the party still owes # 7 million dating back to the «loans for lordships» scandal in 2006; and there is a growing row about the millions of pounds worth of extraordinarily cheap credit Labour obtained from the crisis - stricken Co-Op Bank.

In the standard voting intention we found Labour on 41 %, with the Conservatives on 36 % and the Lib Dems on 9 %.

Labour and the Conservatives» representatives on the committee on standards in public life, which has spent the last year coming up with proposals to remove big money from politics, both issued dissenting notes making clear that they weren't happy at all.

To call out workers on «essential services» for a national strike without any major trade dispute with their direct employers will be tantamount to blatant violation of our extant labour laws and international labour standards.

@MatGB - While the headline is indeed a standard piece of media hyperbole, the actual quote that the Liberal Democrats «never were and aren't a receptacle for left - wing dissatisfaction with the Labour Party» nevertheless remains in stark contrast to Clegg's article from September 2009 in the Times quoted in Sunder's article.

The Labour frontbench will concentrate its efforts on getting greater parliamentary scrutiny of Brexit, including the swift publication of the white paper along with protections for workers and environmental standards.

Under Labour in Wales the NHS has fallen below the standards set in England; waiting lists have doubled, patients are denied choice in where and when they are treated and the NHS is bloated with bureaucracy.

With such a system the election of Labour's candidate for London Mayor is likely to be more influenced by the owner of the Evening Standard than union affiliates and individual party members.

With just two weeks until London's mayoral election, recent polling for the London Evening Standard shows Boris Johnson on course to remain mayor, but puts Labour ahead in London assembly

They also expressed a clear need for Labour to learn lessons from the experience of the people of Greece and a desire to continue to build links with Syriza and other socialist parties in countries like Spain and Portugal in order to prevent further decline in the living standards of working class people.

Ed Miliband identified the key areas where Labour would make a difference: the NHS; a recovery which lifted living standards for everyone; the next generation doing better than their parents; immigration and a clear contrast with UKIP; and a stable economy.

Under Labour voters have had to cope with rising house prices (up 160 % in 10 years) and homes which fail to meet the Welsh Housing Quality Standard imposed in 2002.

The teaching unions need to stop sulking and grab hold of the standards agenda with both hands — and Labour should be bolder in urging them to do so.

His remarks were seen as an offensive throwback to Thatcher - era harsh rhetoric, and are bound to lead to Labour calls for his dismissal as enterprise tsar on the grounds he is totally out of touch with the squeeze on living standards almost all voters are experiencing.