Many labor movement campaigns have to do with limiting hours in the work place.

Trade union opposition to extending working hours is based on the lump of labor theory.

Or Sarah Omega, just 20, who spent 18 hours in labor at a hospital in Kenya.

The PHPN establishes the right of the woman in labor to have a companion or attendant present during labor and free visiting hours for her partner.

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

Thus, the total effect of the recession on labor income of jobs, hours and wage reductions is much larger.

As a result, total labor income the product of jobs times hours worked times average hourly wages has fallen dramatically.

The totality of this project involves tens of thousands of hours of human labor 99 percent of it done by women.

Labor reform leading to longer hours would not reduce the total income of the employed, but it would reduce production costs.

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

After half a million hours of grueling volunteer labor, more than 90 percent of those oiled penguins were successfully returned to the wild.

But, as productivity is much higher in Germany, an effective reduction of hourly labor costs by uncompensated increases in working hours seems worth trying.

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

Labor regulations also limit the age at which people are allowed to work and how many hours and under what conditions they may work.

Measures aimed at enabling mothers to work, such as state funded childcare and more flexible working hours, create incentives for childrearing while expanding the labor force.

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.

She waited for hours and hours.

He once worked 30 straight hours on the Illinois Central Railroad before realizing that a life of hard labor was not what he wanted and he'd prefer to go to school instead.

Productivity growth is not about working longer it is about generating more output per unit of labor input. Any undercounting of output pales in comparison with the IT assisted undercounting of working hours.

They may not change by much the number of hours worked by the main breadwinner in a family (typically a man), but they do influence the participation of women in the labor force.

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Likewise, Obama s health care reform, the Affordable Care Act, has hampered employment growth, as businesses reduce their hiring and cut workers hours to shelter themselves from increased labor costs (estimates of the rise vary).

Now I'd argue that that is as absurd as stating that 30 minutes of copulation is the creative act, and nine months of gestation, and, God forbid, 24 hours of child labor is merely execution.

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Mentoring me. He'd come up and spend hours and hours with me.

The caste system and labor laws prevent an efficient labor market.

And when I started in with the eight hours and the 10 hours and the 12 hours and the 14 hours and the 15 hours and the 24 hour swims, I knew I had it, because I was making it through these.

Lumpy Labor

Family nurse's individual counselling hours should be at least 10 hours every week.

Forced labor, child labor, and discrimination in the workplace must be eliminated.

Diplomacy s Darkest Hours

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A proposal for flexible working hours of less than 8 hours per day and 48 hours per week is also under the Cabinet's consideration.

Within 24 hours, they had his name, and within 48 hours, he was arrested.

Standard working hours (or normal working hours) refers to the legislation to limit the working hours per day, per week, per month or per year.

Men tend to work on average four hours more than women in occupations such as plant and machine operators (42 hours compared to 38 hours).

Slack labor markets with rising unemployment rates will cap wage and labor costs.

Germany s Labor Pains

Labor Force Estimates