Sentence examples for labor established from inspiring English sources

It is somewhat ironic that despite the Abbott government's rhetoric about MBS sustainability, the quality and safety committee Labor established and charged with undertaking this work has, to our knowledge, not met even once under this government.

Carr called on Tehan to commit to the protocol Labor established in 2007 that the minister not overturn ARC decisions "without a full, timely and public explanation".

He, too, has taken advantage of globalization to place factories around the world, with those heavily dependent on hand labor established in low-wage countries while the more automated plants operate in wealthier countries like the United States, Europe and Singapore.

Swan compared the checks and balances for the NAIF (a body set up to provide loans to projects that can't get private financing) with the $10bn Clean Energy Finance Corporation that Labor established – a body the Abbott government repeatedly sought to dismantle precisely because it was established to provide loans to projects that couldn't get private financing.

To improve productivity, he also struck restrictions on machinery which saved labor, established a standardized overtime rate, and resolved jurisdictional conflicts between unions.

So it offered everyday remedies -- abolishing child and convict labor, establishing an income tax and public ownership of land for settlement not speculation, among others.

One can imagine a time when the gig economy has become more entrenched than it is and contingent labor affiliates rather as medieval guilds did -- setting a market price for labor, establishing professional standards and discovering all the other benefits of association.

A 2013 ruling by the Department of Labor established a baseline for federal contractors to have 7% of their workforce be individuals with disabilities.

Taken at face value, the AFL-CIO's support of a plan that, as Trumka puts it, "ties the number of new foreign workers coming into the US labor market to established labor shortages" would have old-time labor leaders turning over in their union-dug graves.

This system intends to guarantee the labor rights established in the National Constitution and international labor agreements supported by Argentina.

Farm workers have for decades been exempt from the basic labor protections established by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which provided for minimum wage, overtime pay and child labor standards.