Labour Reform Quotes

The most fervid demand, however, of all the workers on strike was for a shorter day … 10½ hours instead or 13 hours as formerly, or even 14 and 16 reckoning the time of cleaning machinery.

In the interests of competitiveness in a globalizing world economy, governments of all complexions introduced labour-market reforms that promoted flexibility but accentuated the precariat's insecurities.

If very fundamental reforms take place, especially when it comes to factors of production like land, labour, then a higher growth rate is possible.

What we need is much more flexibility for the labour markets.

A reform in the relations of the employer and employed, by which shall be secured the practice of the great natural law, of one-third of time to labour, one-third to recreation, and one-third to rest, that by this, intellectual improvement and physical development may go on to that perfection which the Almighty Creator designed.

Many European countries and Japan need to free their labour markets and liberalise services to boost productivity growth.

Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

The 'Welfare Reform and Work' Bill does nothing to address low wages, or underemployment, and I haven't even got started on how it undermines the provision of affordable housing.

There are high hopes of France and what they're trying to achieve there by liberalising the labour market and other reforms. You lose some, you gain some.

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

Labour reforms are not anti-worker.