Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] employers ' " in BNC.

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1 The president of the employers ' federation , the Union Patronale de Côte d'Ivoire ( UPACI ) , Joseph Aka Anghui , cited rampant fraud , inefficient bureaucracy , price controls and high taxes as key problems affecting industry ; he also complained of the failure of government bodies to meet their debts to the private sector .
2 Because wages are part of the employers ' costs , which they must seek to minimise if they are to survive , workers experience a ceaseless downward pressure on their standards of living .
3 These figures were produced in support of the employers ' position in the course of a bitter wage dispute ; the weavers claimed that on some types of cloth they could hardly make 4d ( 2p ) a day .
4 Ironically , the attribute on which young people do best relative to older workers is specific educational qualifications which actually comes bottom of the employers ' list of essential attributes , being mentioned by only 2 per cent of employers !
5 By February 1890 , this temporary arrangement had extended its coverage and become permanent with the establishment of an Employers ' Labour Association representing thirty of the principal steamship owners and twenty master stevedores and porters who together employed some three-fifths of the seamen and dockers in the port .
6 However , those in charge of the employers ' side soon learnt of this , and special trains were engaged , with all the doors of the carriages locked .
7 Pupils get to see the process from the employers ' point of view .
8 Sir William Walker was an ageing Conservative ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester , engineer , and member of the CEB , who had been the architect of the employers ' side of the industry 's labour relations machinery prior to nationalisation .
9 His first recorded public speech , condemning the shipowners at a mass meeting on the Sunderland Town Moor for their resistance to the extension of the Employers ' Liability Act to mariners , was reported in the Sunderland Echo for 31 December 1880 .
10 Or the employee may wish to seek medical advice on his own account , which , brought to the notice of the employers ' medical advisers , will cause them to change their opinion .
11 But there is one change on the employers ' side that needs to be mirrored for employees : the abolition of the ceiling .
12 For the longer term , the Secretary of State proposes to replace the Burnham Committees by a Teachers ' Negotiating Group , with central government rather than LEAs in a majority on the employers ' side .
13 Aggressive tactics by management and state support are not the only explanation for the employers ' victory .
14 Testing complicates the issue of fulfilment of the employers ' obligations to provide jobs to successful Compact graduates .
15 This is a central feature of the employers ' view .
16 At that stage the divisional officer may have taken it away from the domestic scene , and er put it through to Glasgow if it was the , if the employer was a member of the employers ' association , he would then take it to local conference .
17 Carry out duties and responsibilities conscientiously and with proper regard for the employers ' interests .
18 The engineering union IG Metall on May 4 reached agreement with the employers ' organization Gesamtmetall on phasing in a 35-hour week for its 700,000 workers in the North Württemberg area .
19 In more recent times the functioning of Swedish industrial relations has been as much , if not more , dependent upon the centralisation of power within the employers ' confederation as upon the unions ' peak organisation .
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