Sentence examples for labour measures from inspiring English sources

Unlike Ecuador's neighbour Peru, which still has a separate labour code for domestic workers, the country adopted fair labour measures as part of its 2010 constitution.

But, as Polly Curtis and Patrick Wintour report in the Guardian today, Tory peers last year opposed Labour measures to restrict access to legal aid for middle-class defendants.

After five years of grindingly slow progress on the gender pay gap, this summer David Cameron announced that he was reversing this government's decision to ditch Labour measures requiring big companies to publish their pay gap.

Clegg's only real defence was that because the coalition is also going ahead with many Labour measures, the overall effect will sting the rich as well as the poor.

In 2011 America spent a paltry 0.1% of GDP on "active" labour measures designed to put the unemployed back to work; the OECD average was 0.6% (see chart 1).

Obstetric indicators included prolonged labour measured by the duration of labour pain for more than 12 hours, pregnancy induced hypertension, trained attendants at birth, retained placenta, mal-presentation of the index baby, and oral administration of two misoprostol tablets soon after delivery of the baby.

600 observations across the three shifts and three hospitals showed high compliance with active management of the third stage of labour, measuring blood loss and uterine contraction at 30 min, cord care, drying and wrapping newborns and Apgar scores and low compliance with monitoring vital signs.

Labour announced measures to help small firms with their business rates at its party conference.

These make up a quarter of the 40% ruled out by Labour's measures, according to the Guardian analysis.

"Labour supports measures to tackle electoral fraud and will be backing a number of the reasonable proposals planned by the government," she said on Tuesday.

Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP first minister, described Major's comments as "an affront to democracy" while pledging to support Labour on measures to improve pay and working conditions.