Sentence examples for for fair work from inspiring English sources

Like greeting old friends, I embraced the importance placed on a national health service, on public transport, on sustainable energy, on fair pay for fair work.

Roseanna Cunningham, the Scottish government's Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training, said: "While employment law remains reserved to the UK government, the Scottish government continues to do everything we can to further improve employment standards and promote good working practices, including the Living Wage of £8.25 an hour".

Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, Roseanna Cunningham, Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training, said more had to be done to ensure people were not stuck on low pay for life.

"We wanted to come up with a sustainable model for fairer work, and be able to support ourselves".

In Singapore, domestic workers – who number 206,000 and hail mostly from the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India– celebrated a parliamentary proposal announced Monday to legislate a weekly day off for workers starting 1 January 2013, after a 10-year-long campaign calling for fairer work rights.

That was a job for the Fair Work Commission, he added.

It is a healthy place for kids to play, for parents and schools to buy, and a creative and fair work environment for employees.

Last week he stayed up until 1 in the morning to finish an article for Vanity Fair, working on a laptop on his bedside table.

Colleges have turned internships into a prerequisite for the professional world but have neither ensured equal access to these opportunities, nor insisted on fair wages for honest work.

The government has also increased fines for employers who exploit workers, as well as increasing funding for the office of the fair work ombudsman, and strengthening its powers.

The cabinet secretary for the economy, jobs and fair work, Keith Brown, called on Theresa May's government to follow Scotland's lead.