Sentence examples for social clauses from inspiring English sources

"A lot of European countries have social clauses in their procurement legislation, and we think it is something that would greatly increase the job creation potential of the sector".

We have heard about some good examples already of Trust Engines that are already out there: Year Here has worked with a legal team to add social clauses into its Memorandum and Articles.

As regards the social clauses, the situation is that, in terms of our positions, very little has been achieved.

In Recital C we say what is the point in democracy and social clauses in our agreements when there appears to be little attempt to monitor and enforce such clauses?

What trade specialists in Washington—Fred Bergsten among them should really be asking is this: do the president's trade goals make sense?The administration's various actions and policy pronouncements notably, its capitulation over the Helms-Burton act and its misguided efforts to insert a social clause into the World Trade Organisation (WTO)—raise grave doubts.

It is hard to read the social clause of the World Trade Organisation, or the prominence of the child-labour issue, in any other light.VIVEK DEHEJIAOttawaBritain in EuropeSIR--Implicit in all Britain's relations with the European Union ("Standing firm on Europe", April 19th) is one simple and obvious geographical fact: we live on an island.

The EU's Lisbon Treaty should be changed - we want a social clause introduced, so that free movement of capital and services is not more important than social protection of workers.

Additionally, Nalia Kabeer discusses the impacts of a social clause that would enforce global labor standards through international trade agreements, drawing on fieldwork from Bangladesh.

(FR) Mr President, the cross-cutting social clause and Article 14 of the Treaty of Lisbon place a binding obligation on States to protect social rights and the right of access to services of general interest in particular.

Then there was the single currency we have been promised for 1999, and the social clause drafted as if the country of Adam Smith, creator of the universal poverty of nations, could at the same time rediscover ultra-liberalism and talk about social affairs.

But our efforts were not entirely in vain: the fact that the social clause and, in particular, the reference to minimum labour standards were included in the final declaration can be regarded as a victory, given the very strong opposition from the developing countries.