They are demanding shorter working hours.

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

These sessions are shorter than full trial days, by about two hours.

These sessions are shorter than full trial days, by about two hours.

One explanation for this gap is shorter working hours (or lower availability for work) for women (In 2002, employed men worked an average of 42 hours a week, compared to employed women, who worked 31 hours a week a 35 difference).

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

Suicide bombers and death squads are not seeking shorter working hours, higher salaries, or better pension plans.

Hours of Work

The problem is that total compensation did not go down in proportion to the shorter hours, thus leading to an increase in pay per hour.

And, with unemployment stubbornly high, many households are saving in order to have additional cash if they should lose their job or be put on shorter hours.

They could not be given unequal remuneration in fact, they worked shorter hours for the same remuneration if they had three or more children to care for.

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).

Social solidarity, essential to European identity, can and must include longer work lives, but also more work sharing, adult learning, and shorter average work weeks (particularly close to retirement).

Most do not ask for their legal working hours, work extreme hours and are paid below the minimum wage.

Collectively, MCC crews contribute more than 90,000 work hours each year.

Isn't there something shorter?

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.

For Legislators, senior officials and managers, women work one hour more than men at 42 hours compared to 41 hours for men.

Such a decision would avoid the inevitable disruptions to the substantive work of the Commission that result from shorter term mandate renewals.

Sami was shorter than me.

right of woman to shorter working hours after the expiration of maternity leave for baby care according to the findings and opinion of the authorised medical doctor (Articles 70 79 of the Law).

These men work twelve or more hours a day, seven days a week.

People seem to want to work more than three hours a day, even if it is assembly line work.

My sister is shorter than you.

He's a bit shorter than me.

Sami is much shorter than Layla.

In England 1833, a law was passed saying that any child under the age of 9 could not work, children age 9 13 could only work 8 hours a day, and children aged 14 18 could only work 12 hours a day.

Normally migrant workers work long hours while they are offered a very low wage.

Hours of paid work would fall to three a day a 15 hour week.

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

Convention concerning the Reduction of Hours of Work to Forty a Week (No. 47)

For starters, a revolution is required in the organization of work, learning, and leisure. Social solidarity, essential to European identity, can and must include longer work lives, but also more work sharing, adult learning, and shorter average work weeks (particularly close to retirement).

His life was intended to revolve around a strict rule five hours of sleep, six hours of manual work interspersed with a long time of prayer.

The track is shorter than 6 seconds

We might therefore have expected hours of work to have fallen by about two thirds.

From 1988 to 1993, the legal work week fell 10 , from 44 hours to 40.

Hours are irregular and there is a considerable amount of night, weekend, and holiday work.

When Daimler Chrysler increased work hours from 35 to 40 hours in its research and development center, the dam broke and other bargaining agreements fell into line.

Hence the frequent periods shorter than four years.

In some instances, it may even be shorter.

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

A woman on average spent 13.6 hours per week in 2002 on domestic and unpaid work.

The needs of parents who work long hours on some days are also taken into consideration.

Around the world, an estimated 171 million children from 5 to 17 years of age work, subject to hazardous conditions, excessive workloads, work intensity and excessive hours of work.

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