The phrase "labor standard" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a measure of job performance and quality that is set as the accepted norm in a workplace, often set by a governing body. For example, "The new labor standard set by the government requires that employees must complete their tasks within one hour."
So the local government regulators don't want to enforce a high labor standard and force the factories away.
While an international labor standard would be useful, it is too idealistic and impractical, and mandated living wages would rob countries with cheap labor of the competitive advantage they need to lift their people out of poverty.
The purpose of federal immigration policy, or lack of such, is not to protect the moral rights of immigrants — it is to maintain long hours, low wages, nonexistent benefits and a complete lack of job security as the national labor standard.
LONDON — Despite outmaneuvering what amounted to an attempted coup last week by members of his own cabinet, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain is still fighting to persuade a potentially fratricidal Labor Party not to oust him and choose another leader to carry the Labor standard into a general election.
In the last decade, Mexico has established standards for labor equality and non-discrimination (see the labor standard NMX-R-025-SCFI-2009 and more recently the labor standard NMX-R-025-SCFI-2015).
But since new management took over in 2002, Chiquita has become a different company, adopting environmental and transparency standards that earned it certification by the Rainforest Alliance and compliance with Social Accountability International's SA8000 labor standard.
Roosevelt and his Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, didn't just pull these labor standards out of thin air.
Native workers would now compete against laborers subject to the same wage floors and labor standards they were offered.
Labor advocates said the upgrade undermines Obama's repeated vow that the TPP deal would include robust, enforceable labor standards.
But the voters who left were still hawks opposed to the policies of the Labor standard-bearer, Amram Mitzna, whose platform includes unilaterally closing some Jewish settlements and reopening talks with the Palestinian Authority.
American companies support high labor standards in China.
