Significantly, the "exploitation" contracts were granted without Parliamentary approval.
Also in July, Smith and 10 colleagues published a paper in Science recommending a precautionary approach to seabed mining that would emphasize the creation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), and calling on the ISA to "[suspend] further approval of exploration contracts (and not approve exploitation contracts) until MPA networks are designed and implemented for each target region".
With its labor agreement expiring in 11 months, the National Hockey League now says it has lost $1.5 billion over the last nine seasons largely because of spiraling player costs and the union's exploitation of contract loopholes.
Located by the border with Cambodia, children in An Giang are also vulnerable to trafficking, commercial exploitation and contracting HIV.
Not every no-strings contract represents exploitation, it's true, but too many do.
banning the "exploitation" of zero hours contracts and "legislate to say that if you do regular hours you get a regular contract".
He said a Labour government would ban the exploitation of zero-hours contracts and give workers on them extra legal rights, including the ability to demand a regular contract for regular hours.
There has been a worrying growth in zero hour contracts, continued exploitation of agency workers through loopholes in the regulations and a growing scarcity in permanent full time jobs.
Seumas Milne (Austerity has clearly failed, 20 November) rightly points out the destructive economic and social effects of an insecure workforce, through zero-hours contracts, the exploitation of migrant workers and the lack of secure and stable jobs.
Miliband has already tried to assuage union thinking by setting out plans to abolish exploitation in zero hours contracts, one of the most disliked parts of the current labour market.
It's inhuman," Patel told AFP. "There is no exploitation, it's a voluntary contract between human beings involving an exchange of money.
