Sentence examples for basic labour rights from inspiring English sources

Across the world, the trade union movement has been the lynchpin behind achieving basic labour rights and improvements in working conditions.

Some is in the shape of interest-free loans, while the denial of basic labour rights, such as joining a union, drives down pay and costs.

Despite promises of reform, the Kuwaiti government has not yet passed a law to protect domestic workers, who are not given the basic labour rights provided to other workers under national law.

When domestic workers are so systematically denied the basic labour rights afforded to other workers, employers cannot be held accountable for the mistreatment of those working in their households.

Yet, though critical to the functioning of national economies, 90% of domestic workers – around 47 million – do not have the same basic labour rights as workers in other sectors.

Some of Britain's best-known high street brands are selling "cheap chic" clothes at the expense of workers in Bangladesh who are paid 5p an hour despite pledges to protect basic labour rights, an investigation by War on Want will reveal today.

Instead, he would try to introduce further flexibility around a basic legal framework of labour rights and rules, allowing firms to negotiate deals with their staff on hours and pay.

In 1955 the Honduran basic labour code came into effect, granting the right to work, a minimum wage, an eight-hour workday, the freedom to form labour unions, collective bargaining, conciliation, and the right to strike.

Opponents claim this means cuts to basic services and unemployment subsidies as well as fewer labour rights.

The basic rights set forth in the revised charter concern housing; health; education, labour rights, employment, and parental leave; protection from poverty and social exclusion; free movement of persons and nondiscrimination; migrant worker rights; and nondiscrimination of persons with disabilities.

Some coalesced around labour rights.