Sentence examples for basic labour standards from inspiring English sources

Mustafa Qadri, an expert on migrant workers' rights in Qatar, said: "The fact that workers continue to live in the same poor conditions and have not even been allowed to leave Qatar despite the passage of four months since the story was first made public raises serious questions about the willingness or ability of both the company and the Qatari authorities to respect basic labour standards".

Steve Trent of the Environmental Justice Foundation said the findings demonstrated how little Thai vessels had applied basic international labour standards.

In 2004, HP's Bonnie Nixon-Gardiner helped create the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct (EICC) to set out basic labour and environmental standards for contract manufacturers, following the FLA model.

Residents of Russia's far east fear that China is planning to plunder their oil and timber and perhaps even to colonise their empty spaces.Some non-governmental organisations worry that Chinese firms will ignore basic legal, environmental and labour standards in their rush to secure resources, leaving a trail of corruption, pollution and exploitation in their wake.

'A race to the bottom in labour standards?

First, it has repudiated industry-wide, national labour standards.

High labour standards were only achievable through European action.

Decent work, decent labour standards for workers everywhere".

That is, they want to impose rich-world labour standards on countries whose competitive advantage is low labour costs.

The push for reform in the Gulf is about more than ensuring adherence in the region to international labour standards.

FIFA has recently included provisions for labour standards in World Cup contracts that kick in with the 2026 tournament.