The reality is that so far, the options are still pretty limited: work full time (in many cases, overtime), work part time or stay home.

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And though Axis tries to avoid having any people working overtime hours, in the event the client company requires intensive overtime work, Axis has a unique pay structure for its employees.

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They receive their commissions in lieu of overtime and enjoy a largely autonomous work-life outside of an office.

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He refused to stay at the Mandarin, saying there was no need to put him up in a luxury hotel or make the staff work overtime during the Lunar New Year holiday just for his benefit.

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Moreover, in most states you can require employees to work overtime, even weekends and holidays, provided that you pay your non-exempt employees the appropriate overtime wages. (Employees who are exempt as professionals, executives, administrators, and outside salespersons are not entitled to overtime compensation.) Weed out your unproductive employees and reward your hard workers with overtime pay when necessary.

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And France's 35-hour legislation is full of loopholes: employers and unions in the engineering sector recently agreed to increase overtime and average weekly work-hours over the whole year.

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In this case they did it by making a gene work overtime, rather than by suppressing its activity.

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In particular, it is uncertain what overtime rate people will be paid if they continue to work more than 35 hours a week.

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