91.   New Employment Minister Amanda Vanstone said employment growth was still too slow despite the slight improvement in the labour force figures.

92.   Other recent data, such as newspaper advertisements for jobs, have pointed to a slowing labour force market, analysts said.

93.   Palestinians are employed as a cheap labour force in Israel mainly in agriculture, construction and the hotel industry.

94.   Such is the fear across Surat that almost one-fifth of its two million population, including a huge floating labour force, has fled.

95.   Teo said labour practices should be appropriate to the level of development of each country and suit the circumstances facing the labour force.

96.   The KOC stoppage is a rare display of trade union action in Gulf Arab monarchies which employ a large foreign labour force and where strikes are banned by law.

97.   The labour force was also down slightly, resulting in the unchanged overall unemployment rate.

98.   The government is also trying to mould a more skilled labour force to run these new industries, including upgrading education and re-emphasising English as a medium of instruction.

99.   The household labour force survey is the official government measure of unemployment.