Sentence examples for statutory labour from inspiring English sources

"Hong Kong is one of the few places in the world which grants statutory labour rights and benefits, such as a weekly rest day, statutory holidays, paid annual leave etc to migrant workers, same as those enjoyed by local workers," said Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, secretary for labour and welfare, before the release of Justice Centre's report.

But quality has so many dimensions, many of them hard to gauge, that it is hard to guarantee by statutory diktat, as Labour found to its cost.

Following a consultation last year, we are taking a number of steps including appointing a statutory director of labour market enforcement who will set priorities for enforcement bodies and drive a new, overarching and collaborative approach to labour market enforcement across the entire spectrum of non-compliance.

"As Gravesham's biggest single employer we want to send a signal to companies across the borough that the living wage should be the target for employees not the statutory minimum," said the Labour council leader John Burden.

People working 18 hours on and six hours off were classed as casual labour and got statutory redundancy.

One of the group, Prem Bahadur Tamang, was sent back to Nepal in June after organising a strike to demand their salaries, but Tamang says ETC refused to pay his bonus and leave allowance, or buy his air ticket home, all statutory requirements under Qatar's labour laws once a contract is completed.

In 2010 the Labour government shamefully left statutory SRE provision to the pre-election legislative wash-up.

In choosing the May date, he ran about as close as he could to the statutory expiration in early June of Labour's five-year term in office.

Labour will introduce a statutory requirement for authorities to set up a public accounts committee (PAC) with powers to scrutinise value for money for all local services.

Labour's shadow minister for the Cabinet Office Jon Trickett MP said: "David Cameron must now address his failure to act by working with Labour to establish a Statutory Register of Lobbyists.

Statutory holidays, bank holidays, working hours, underage labour are all restraints on trade.