It serves different purposes, such as the promotion of collective bargaining and self-regulation; the creation of common standards or funds for apprenticeships, training or pre-retirement; the enforcement of minimum wages and minimum terms of employment; and the binding of foreign service providers to domestic standards.
However, we caution against enforcement of policies on a minimum number of hours that all women must stay in the absence of improvements to infrastructure, and provider deployment and training on respectful, non-discriminatory, culturally competent care [ 39].
Citing the likelihood of lax enforcement of a 25-year-old minimum for buying tobacco, the panel suggested that setting the bar that high was unlikely to prevent many youths from initiating a smoking habit.
In a developing country like China, enforcement of the minimum wage could be an important issue that affects the reliability of our results (Khamis 2013).
The party has promised action against employers who exploit migrant labour to undercut domestic labour, to tackle gangmasters and for a more rigorous enforcement of the minimum wage laws.
Wright wrote to Ashley saying the committee wanted to ask him about his company's treatment of staff, enforcement of the minimum wage and the progress of an internal review of Sports Direct's practices, which Ashley said he would oversee personally as a response to the Guardian's reports.
Domestic policy ideas – new resources to deal with the pressure of migration on public services; a cross-party commission; stronger enforcement of the minimum wage – were knocked back by Downing Street on the grounds that they would not resolve the problem that EU membership involved surrender of border control, and might instead just highlight that fact.
Because marketing channels in highly industrialized countries are complex and overlapping, the establishment and enforcement of a single price or even a minimum price by manufacturers is a complicated and burdensome task in the absence of collective enforcement efforts, limitation of numbers of enterprises, or governmental intervention.
Calling for the prosecution of someone at Sports Direct for paying illegally low wages, better enforcement of the minimum wage, outlawing zero-hours contracts – those would be a start.
It is adopting a range of social measures that includes better enforcement of the minimum wage, negative taxation for the poorest and employment schemes targeting both Arabs and haredim.
