| However, a campaign promise to further reduce the workweek to 35 hours was never implemented. |
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| Sclerotic labor markets, typified by the 35-hour workweek, are jealously guarded by militant trade unions. |
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| Focus on getting through the first workweek, then the weekend, and only then the next five workdays. |
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| South Korea is one of the world's only industrialized nations to still have a six-day workweek. |
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| Employers added 340,000 jobs, while the length of the average workweek rose and manufacturing workers spent more overtime hours on the job. |
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| After sunset at the end of the workweek, I go to evening prayers and sit down for a festive meal with friends. |
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| Previously, a special permit was required if the mandatory workweek exceeded 48 hours. |
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| We can't lower the workweek because the devil finds work for idle hands to do. |
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| This could mean more flexible schedules, a compressed workweek or a part-time working schedule. |
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| Instead of giving you the three-day workweek you asked for, your boss might counter with a four-day week. |
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| Although he also likes to fish, camp and play softball, finding time in a six-day workweek to do any of that is a real challenge. |
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| Average manufacturing overtime increased in November to 4.4 hours and the workweek to 40.8 hours. |
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| And, as we get into the workweek, I hate to say it, we have to have the calculator, the green eyeshades, and our eyes will be crossed. |
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| Union negotiators had been seeking a guaranteed 40-hour workweek and job assignments based on seniority. |
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| The small print on one flier noted that a one-year contract was based on a six-day workweek, 12 hours per day. |
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| My wife's only complaint is the six-day workweek, which doesn't leave much of a weekend! |
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| Wringing out inflation is a painful process that a shorter workweek, in my opinion, would not ease and could even make worse. |
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| In another instance, it was not always clear if time was compensated at the compressed workweek rate or standard rate. |
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| Eateries and retailers reported fresh supplies and full menus for sushi-starved Manhattanites at the start of the workweek. |
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| As Douthat notes, a workweek is benificial to society, just like regular Church attendance. |
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| The average workweek shrank to 36.6 hours from 36.7 in June. |
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| In the beginning of October, official NHL employees were placed on a four-day workweek and given a 20 percent salary cut. |
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| Scratch the placid surface, however, and the typical workweek teems with fascinating people and events. |
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| Work must also be restructured in such a way that it accommodates caregiving, through a shorter workweek and more flexible scheduling, for example. |
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| Think of all you do before you figure the hours of your workweek. |
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| In manufacturing, the average workweek lengthened slightly, and is now as high as it has been in 60 years. |
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| The shift is meant to better align the Yemeni workweek with that of its trading partners in the Middle East, Asia and the West. |
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| Cutting-edge comforts like plastic hairbrushes and drip-dry polyester shirts are missing, but the workweek is only 20 hours. |
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| French companies apply the workweek agreements entered into with social partners. |
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| A problem was that support for a shorter workweek within the ranks of organized labor was not as strong as one would suppose. |
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| In such a case, the teacher shall be compensated by a reduction of his or her regular workweek which shall equal the duration of the meeting. |
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| This question can be approached from different angles: too much time in relation to their workweek? |
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| That's because the state's average manufacturing workweek was significantly higher than the national average in April. |
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| Under the collective agreement, supervisors are required to make their best effort to ensure that you don't have too many different start times during a workweek. |
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| John Conyers of Michigan introduced a bill that would lower the workweek standard to 35 hours, increase the overtime penalty to double-time, and prohibit mandatory overtime in labor contracts. |
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| Deals with telecommuting, part-time, job sharing or compressed workweek. |
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| Five different napping strategies were defined, in relation to whether or not workers napped during the workweek or only on weekends or both, and the frequency with which they napped. |
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| Roback was appalled by the working conditions in the garment industry where piece work, a 60-hour workweek, and pitiful wages were the norm for the unskilled workers, the large majority of whom were women. |
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| To begin with, this is the country that introduced a 35-hour workweek. |
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| The government recognizes there are many strong advocates of a shorter workweek and that there are good arguments in favour of reducing the existing standards regarding hours of work. |
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| More broadly, the unions have a vital interest in taking up a fight against unemployment, for jobs for all with decent pay through a shortened workweek with wages adjusted to prices. |
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| The text, comprising 27 clauses, maintains the 35-hour workweek but extends to each company the freedom to establish, within the framework of an agreement, the duration of its workweek. |
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| The American labour force grew at about 1 percent per year over that period, the average workweek was essentially unchanged, and productivity was thought to be growing at 1.5 percent per year. |
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| As well, workers with longer hours of work have their entire work effort recognized, since a longer workweek adds more hours of insurable employment than a short workweek. |
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| However, the school principal or the centre director may agree with the teachers on other meetings to meet parents without taking into account the schedule of the teachers' workweek. |
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| In addition to a reduction in the unemployment rate, the 35-hour workweek was aimed to improve the quality of life for workers while increasing productivity. |
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| This motivated the question: What accounts for the large decrease in the workweek length and developments in the employment rate over the past 130 years? |
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| The correctional facility implemented a new five-and-two workweek for the officers, replacing its older four-and-two workweek. |
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| Ahmadi-nejad has cut the workweek to 30 hours a week in Tehran and 33 hours in the provinces during Ramadan. |
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| Materials scientists have turned wood into stone, mimicking in a single workweek a natural petrification process that takes millions of years. |
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| The municipality of the Bulgarian city of Kardzhali is considering the introduction of a 4-day workweek, due to the expected cuts of the municipality budgets. |
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| Growth in the number of working couples and in the length of the average workweek have made the old-fashioned two-week vacation increasingly rare. |
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| In 1974, the average workweek for Soviet industrial workers was 40 hours. |
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| A 32-hour workweek is a 4-day week and an 8-hour day combined. |
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