And the European Parliament recently voted for their swift inclusion in the European Working Time Directive, which sets a 48-hour maximum.
"We will examine the balance of the EU's existing competences and will, in particular, work to limit the application of the Working Time Directive in the United Kingdom, " the agreement said.
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Similarly, it seems that women are more likely to work part-time in countries that protect that desire, as the gap between the women working part-time in the other countries and women doing the same here at home grew by two percentage points between 1990 and 2010.
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Instead, he says will complete his Rams contract until the end of this season before finding another club in August - or working in the media full time.
The court in Luxembourg said the EU Working Time Directive grants workers a right to at least four weeks' paid annual leave "even where such leave coincides with periods of sick leave".
Mr Hughes also described the adoption of the working time directive in the UK as a "mistake", telling MPs he supported the government's bid to limit its application.
In turn, I participated in this eagerly, and was surprised to find how accessible and interested the major emerging artists at the time were in working with us in London.
He did his national service in the Royal Air Force and regards the time he spent working in a hangar as a big influence on his later designs.
The Office's popularity in NBC's prime-time lineup reveals a focus on working and striving in a time when the stakes are high.
The EU working time directives could come in to effect in the UK in three years' time if they back the move.
The smallest decline in night-time working has occurred among the worst-paid workers, and blacks have found it harder than whites or immigrants to escape such work.
In 2009 the number of people of working age in western Germany shrank for the first time.
An American coach is also a possibility after the Olympic silver medallist spent a short time working in the gym with Roger Mayweather, uncle and trainer of Floyd Mayweather, during his recent trip to Las Vegas for the Calzaghe-Bernard Hopkins fight.
In addition, the European Working Time Directive will mean their working week is reduced to 58 hours by August, then 48 by 2007.
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Earlier on, in response to a question by Labour's Graeme Morrice, the minister pointed out the NHS budget would increase in real terms during the lifetime of the Parliament, adding that the number of full-time equivalent clinical staff working in the NHS was higher today than in May 2010 and September 2009.
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"The fiscal cliff deal will make me spend more time working in the business rather than on the business, " he says.
Local reports said the sign was posted by a student working part-time in the library.
Corsell, a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, took a job as a political analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency after college and subsequently spent time in Cuba working for the State Department.
The current generation of four submarines would begin to end their working lives some time in the 2020s.
Anyone who has spent time in the working world has run into difficult people.
The Tories might entrench an exemption from the working-time directive, eg, in the National Health Service, as several other countries want one too but the European Parliament, which under Lisbon has equal legislative power with EU governments, may not agree.
The survey did show that 80% of those who responded think they make a difference to people in their day to day work, 86% were prepared to go the extra mile and 70% say they would like to be working for the organisation in 12 months time.
That might have contributed to the fall in initial unemployment claims too, although economists reckon that seasonal upheavals in working patterns make figures at this time of the year especially hard to assess.
The patient's bill of rights, in many ways, that Democrats spent a lot of time in the late '90s working on, are contained in this.
The World at One has learned that on Tuesday of last week, the day before the resignation, a senior civil servant - who was at the Cabinet Office, where Mr Mandelson was working at the crucial time in 1998 - was called by Downing Street and asked for any details about the Hinduja contacts.
I'm sure Riki had his reasons for leaving the first time - I wasn't in charge at the time - and Brian Smith seems to be working with him okay.
Now Glumineau spends less time working on his libretto and more time in the cellar, carefully managing what Mother Nature delivers each year.
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Nor is it the willingness to go onto part-time working to preserve jobs in the downturn, the Protestant work ethic, the large manufacturing sector or any of the other things that people are musing about.
Inside the company, he said, performance is primarily measured in the time it takes someone to start working with the body of the material.
He told the court he was working on clearing blocked drains in the shop at the time.
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