Layla worked long hours.

Layla was working long hours.

Sami worked long hours.

The Fair Labor Standards Act provided financial incentives by requiring overtime pay for employees working long hours.

Their counterparts working in mines, meanwhile, are handling dangerous tools and are made to work without protective equipment for long hours.

Workers in hazardous production processes still enjoy certain privileges reduced working hours, extended annual vacations, early retirement.

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While women are under represented in the workforce, they are more likely to be working part time or very long hours.

Sami worked at his father's restaurant, peeling potatoes for hours on end.

This dish I have made will make you so sick that it will make you dizzy for hours.

And in summer, it's almost manic hunting and working activity very long hours, very active.

With fewer staff available, overtime usage has increased however, longer working hours have taken a toll on the morale, health and motivation of the staff, and there has been an increase in sick and emergency leave taken.

We exchanged a few words he was never very good at connecting emotionally with his sons, but we could talk for hours about politics.

Working longer will boost economic growth, for if people work longer, then so does capital.

Satisfying it has become the great palliative of modern society, our counterfeit reward for working irrational hours.

In practice, however, there are cases in which women are dismissed for refusing to work overtime.

They may struggle to find proper nutrition and work long hours in factories and fields until the day they go into labor.

The lump of labor theory assumes that working longer and employing more people is the same thing.

It will squirt you all around and you can stay in that shower for hours and not waste water, by the way, because it recirculates the same dirty water.

They required scores of highly skilled weavers working over extended periods of time with very expensive materials the wools, the silks, even gold and silver thread.

Social hazards such as the use of illegal drugs to keep children inside the tunnels awake for hours are also a regular feature of the country's mines.

Sami drove for hours.

I've been waiting for hours.

With more money moving around, businesses rehire employees and ask existing employees to work more hours.

They went on talking for hours.

She waited for hours and hours.

The torture continued for hours.

They ate and joked for hours.

From the mid 1970's on, however, Americans continued working more or less the same number of hours, while Western Europeans began working less and less each year.

Then authorities started calling in and arresting journalists who were submitted to long hours of questioning on the sources of their information, with some interrogations lasting for more than 40 hours.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

(Americans think the French, with their shorter working hours and longer summer vacations, already put family ahead of work.)

Some fear that extending the workday will not produce more jobs because the resulting expansion of hours worked will reduce the capital labor ratio.

This would lower the marginal productivity of hours worked sufficiently to offset the positive effects of increasing the number of hours per worker.

Layla and Sami talked for hours.

Some studies suggest that workplace stress is pervasive in the health care industry because of inadequate staffing levels, long work hours, exposure to infectious diseases and hazardous substances leading to illness or death, and in some countries threat of malpractice litigation.

According to reports received by a group of United Nations human rights experts, Al Saegh is being subjected to ill treatment, long term interrogation and held in solitary confinement at the Isa Town Women Detention Centre.

In other words, they obtained shorter hours (i.e., more vacations) in order to keep employment up.

No Injustice anywhere, is injustice everywhere , in most middle eastern countries and Ethiopia maids work long hours, seven days a week and month, no or sporadic vacations, no legal recourse in the case of disagreement with their employer.

Because of the capital utilization effect, the capital labor ratio would not, in fact, decline, and hence there would be no significant effect on the marginal productivity of hours worked.

They waited too long to take action.

Moreover, the court could not conclude that not meeting the hour requirement affected a person's human dignity so as to constitute discrimination.

The pay received did not correspond to the level of remuneration for overtime hours set by collective agreement, or even to the level for regular hours.

For example, a worker could be required to work 70 hours one week and receive no overtime compensation as long as they work 10 hours or less the following week.

It was also the pattern of the long term unemployed in Western Europe at the end of the 1980s. And, in a year or two, it will be the pattern again for the long term unemployed in the North Atlantic region.