Sentence examples for basic labor rights from inspiring English sources
The summer program is the country's largest guest-worker program because it is essentially unregulated and its workers are supercheap and lacking basic labor rights.
[C4.] U.N. Agency Regains Some Stature The International Labor Organization, the United Nations agency that works to promote basic labor rights, has recently gained some renewed prominence.
Employees who have historically been denied basic labor rights — domestic workers and home health aides — need to finally be given the protection of wage-and-hour laws.
Cardinal Roger Mahony wrote, "While we gladly accept their taxes and sweat, we do not acknowledge or uphold their basic labor rights".
"These trends appear to be increasing over the past decade," the report said, "with large numbers of employees misclassified and therefore unprotected by the most basic labor rights".
The California Legislature is considering a bill to extend basic labor rights to domestic workers: the nannies, cooks, baby sitters and other caregivers whose labor allows households to function smoothly, thus contributing to the larger economy.
Today, workers continue to face the same obstacles as before, a government and business community unwilling to recognize the most basic of labor rights: freedom of association and formal employment.
"But that doesn't mean that a government can use an economic crisis to ignore basic labor and constitutional rights.
However, we also believe that basic labor, environmental and human rights standards are just as important.
Labor and human rights negotiators would grant access to our markets, but only on the condition that other countries agree to basic international standards for labor rights, human rights and public health.
"We have an expectation that trade agreements are going to have basic standards to protect labor rights, environmental standards, food safety regulations, financial regulations and taxation transparency," Braley told the National Journal's Peter Cohn on Wednesday.
