Sentence examples for modest labour from inspiring English sources

Taxes for entrepreneurs were raised, and modest labour market reforms reversed.

The modest labour reforms that triggered the unrest were introduced by François Hollande, France's Socialist president.

The government must also complete last June's modest labour reform by defining how companies facing losses might shed workers.

Mr Schröder's government has already shown itself to be more union-friendly than its conservative predecessor by rolling back modest labour reforms, such as a reduction in sick pay.

(His critics say it has barely begun, and, where it has, for instance in modest labour reform, it threatens to change the country for the worse, not the better).

The government of his prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, has been paralysed ever since street protests forced it to withdraw a modest labour-market reform in the spring.

The change of course signalled by the government's modest labour-market reform in June will surely have to be taken further.

The government has pushed through modest labour-market reforms and a new social-security law, but productivity growth is low and there is a dearth of competition in the economy.

The euro crisis in May forced an ostrich-like Socialist government under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to remove its head from the sand, bring in austerity measures to cut the budget deficit, which hit 11% of GDP last year, and even to pass a modest labour-market reform.

Through their modest labours and ambitious recommendations, thésards project much broader urban and national publics for Senegalese public health.

Modest gains in labour legislation gave encouragement to a reformist wing of the union movement, but continued government harassment forced many activists to adopt a more revolutionary ideology.