Sentence examples for labour force stands from inspiring English sources

Throw in clerical and secretarial work, and what he calls the "traditional labour force" stands at around 15 million, and represents nearly two in three jobs; small wonder that according to a Mori survey published four years ago, two-thirds of Britons said they were "working class and proud of it".

The jobless rate as measured by the labour force survey stood at 7.8% in the three months ending in June, unchanged on the quarter to May.

By the end of the 20th century, agriculture and mining accounted for less than 5 percent of Canada's labour force, while manufacturing stood at one-fifth and services, including transportation, trade, finance, and other activities, employed nearly three-fourths of the workforce.

Aggregate membership continued to stabilise at around 7 million members but union density continued to decline because of an expanding labour force - it now stands at 28% - despite an increasing amount of resources being put into union organising and workers wanting representation.

Leaders plan to upgrade the labour force, reduce unemployment, which currently stands at 6%; strengthen the banking and tourism sectors, and, in general, broaden the economic base.

This is the first time the ICLS has addressed the issue with the long-term objective to integrate forced labour modules within regular labour force surveys or to implement stand-alone surveys on forced labour.

In America the unemployment rate stands at 8.3% of the labour force, its 1983 level.

Germany's jobless rate stands at 10.5% of its labour force.

What is much less well known is that the number of people of working age who are out of the labour force altogether - the economically inactive - has gone up and now stands at 7.7 million.

The base rate will not be raised from 0.5% (where it has stood since March 2009) until the unemployment rate, currently 7.8% of the labour force, has fallen to 7%.

A young labour force has new aspirations.