The maximum working-hours directive, for instance, will leave governments free to decide whether they define an on-call junior doctor as working or not.
Bankers - particularly juniors working in corporate finance - are famous for working 12-plus hours a day, including weekends.
High Tech, VC funded, working 120-hours a week, please pass the engineers type start-ups?
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You might think, then, that if we looked at the average number of hours worked by all those of working age - dividing the total number of hours worked by the working age population - Germany would come out on top.
On jobs, for instance, this latest analysis includes an insight into the extent of under-employment in Scotland - those working shorter hours than they want, or under-using their skills, as with graduates making coffee.
By contrast the proportion of men working 31-45 hours a week has risen by four percentage points since 1997.
When I asked for a raise because I was working 10-11 hours a day and was almost always at his beck and call, he literally laughed in my face.
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Employees and unions have reacted angrily to the plans, saying they could result in cuts to salaries, sick pay, holiday entitlement and extra payments made for working anti-social hours.
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There is also the web control element to endpoint security, which protects users from malicious webpages, phishing links and sets up a time frame from leisure use of computers during non-working hours.
You might enjoy the retired life more if you find part-time work that provides some income and health insurance while giving you the freedom to do what you want in your non-working hours.
"When my husband deployed, I was working sixty-plus hours a week and suddenly taking care of our five-year-old daughter by myself, and this house, and the bills, and volunteering with the Family Readiness Group for my husband's unit " She paused long enough to light a cigarette.
Add to this mix the change in the world of work, where, instead of a 40 hour work week in the USA and a more rational 32-35 hour work week in the much of the EU, the dot.com techies are working 60-80 hours a week, with little or no time scheduled for physical recreation or broader social, cultural, or political activities or involvement.
Finally, what of the argument that the new global economy makes it impossible for governments to mandate social protection, such as minimum-wage laws, rules on working hours, health-and-safety standards in the workplace, and so forth.
However new AMs praised the assembly's family-friendly working hours and the fact recess coincides with school holidays.
He told the BBC they could make up the shortfall by working longer - saying three hours a week would cover it.
It keeps me occupied, I can have my own life, I don't have 9-to-5 working hours, I travel at my own leisure.
Working 2400-2600 billable hours a year out of them before shuffling them off to kinder, gentler employers when they go lame, making less money but enjoying life more?
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"And if people are working - as so many of them are - 60 hours a week then the time they can give to both parenting and volunteering is essentially carved out of what are already terribly pressurised lives, " she told the meeting.
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According to Ethan Harris, an economist at Lehman Brothers, the spread of profit-related pay and flexible working hours has enabled firms to adjust quickly to slowing demand with far fewer lay-offs than would have occurred in past downturns.
After several years of working long hours at below-market salaries, workers want to see the fruits of their labor.
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Kaggia says it took him about six months to complete the whole film, working up to 14-15 hours a day.
This year Finland loosened restrictions on working hours and short-term contracts.
Instead of working a 12-hour shift, the firefighters now work 24-hour shifts, including 12 working hours and 12 standby hours.
Think about these guys -- you work eight hours, you go to class 12 hours, you're working -- you're sleeping in between, doing that for six months.
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Keep your requests for concessions -- like working only out of a particular office or during certain hours -- to a minimum.
Kovvali, 64, a former GP, was working as an out-of-hours doctor in Sheffield at the time.
The unions want no layoffs and instead propose wage freezes, job-sharing and reduced working hours.
He points out that the self-employed are also working fewer hours, even though the directive does not affect them.
Norfolk County Council said gritters had been working non-stop for over 24 hours and would be spreading on the priority roads continuously overnight.
For several weeks the newspapers have been running stories about soldiers with "rotten crotches" - a casualty of working long hours in dirty water.
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