Sentence examples for good labour standards from inspiring English sources

Implicitly, the administration is conceding the argument that trade, unless properly regulated, really does militate against good labour standards and a clean environment.

By the same token, it seems that workers in rich countries have little to fear from competition with the downtrodden of the developing world.That is reassuring, but it does not mean that the use of trade measures to enforce core labour standards is a good idea.

Officials are not uniformly zealous in enforcing labour standards and confiscating counterfeit goods.

First off, standards between the US and EU need to be harmonised, which will involve some rather picky changes – one example Larry Elliott gave was deciding where fire extinguishers will be placed on newly manufactured speedboats – and some big ones, such as redefining labour standards, environmental protections and standards of goods and services in the EU and across the Atlantic.

The Gulf Times, a major English-language Qatari paper with close ties to the ruling family in what is a controlled media environment, touted the reforms as evidence of the Gulf state's "keenness to better labour standards". The announcement of the reforms was Qatar's making good on a pledge to change its labour laws by the end of this year.

It is a good idea for a business to hobble its competition if possible which is what mandatory labour standards of the sort demanded of the WTO tend to do.

NGOs have a history of campaigning against workers' rights violations but Pablo Pacheco, principal scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research, believes consumer goods companies will also increasingly pressure palm oil suppliers to demonstrate they don't violate labour standards.

On immigration, he suggested tougher labour standards would prevent employers undercutting locals' wages.Mr Miliband seemed happiest of all discussing his vision of the "good society": ie, his riposte to David Cameron's "Big Society".

It was damaging to labour standards.

High labour standards were only achievable through European action.

Decent work, decent labour standards for workers everywhere".