Sentence examples for labour statutes from inspiring English sources

Scholars have gleefully dissected India's 51 central and 170 state labour statutes, some of which pre-date independence, to demonstrate how they make it hard for firms with more than a handful of staff to fire people and allow disputes to become legal endurance tests.

Statute labour, unpaid work on public projects that is required by law.

(The term corvée, meaning contribution, is now often used synonymously with statute labour).

A group of Saxon nobles and prelates and the free peasantry of Eastphalia, who had borne the brunt of statute labour in the building of the royal strongholds, revolted against the regime of Henry's Frankish and Swabian officials.

The passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 and the growing conservatism in U.S. national labour policies implicit in the statute aroused unions to renewed political activity.

Conspiracies that relate to political offenses and to economic warfare between businesses and between management and labour are usually regulated by statute.

In 1763 La Chalotais led his Parlement in challenging the government's right to impose a corvée (statute of forced labour for public works) on Brittany.

Such a land value tax eventually made it onto the statute books in Labour chancellor Philip Snowden's 1931 budget, but was never implemented because the social fallout from the great depression demanded a more immediate political response.

I can assure you that Conservative votes will help these measures on to the statute books – even if Labour members try to stop them".

In 1924 he appointed the first Labour ministry and in 1931 the Statute of Westminster recognised the dominions of the Empire as separate, independent states within the Commonwealth of Nations.

Perhaps the best-known piece of legislation was the Statute of Labourers of 1351, which addressed the labour shortage problem caused by the Black Death.