Sentence examples for labour norm from inspiring English sources

As Gordon Brown's special adviser, he says, his opinions became clearer; he realised they diverged from the New Labour norm.

He said there were "many problems" with Indonesians working abroad related to "labour norms and human rights violations".

The enforcement of international labour norms is scarcely attempted in slums.

What our research sought to answer was how this increase was perceived by staff and whether it exceeded official labour norms.

This vision of an end-chapter to people's lives was born when manual labour was the norm and life in retirement was much shorter.

That means trying to strike a difficult compromise: many Democrats want to incorporate labour and environmental norms into trade agreements, while many Republicans (and developing countries) oppose this.By setting his own deadline, Mr Bush may have given the Democrats a weapon.

A "rising tide of insecurity" in the job market since the last election was allowing employers to turn a "once marginal and niche element of the labour market" into the norm, Labour claimed on Sunday evening.

This sort of nonsense will be the norm if Labour keeps losing elections and condemns future generations to a Tory future.

Forty-odd years later little has changed although the 1988 protests opened the doors to restricted tourism and conscription and forced labour have become the norm.

Reporters looked on bemused when he began quoting a passage from the East German socialist poet Ernst Toller about "it not being seemly to mourn", but otherwise it was an admirably frank press conference, free at last of the platitudes and cliches that have too often been the norm in Labour's campaign.

In contrast, non-economic definitions are usually normative, i.e. there is a shortage of labour relative to defined norms [ 6].