And some companies have so many part-time workers that they equal 50 full-time workers.
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Democrats want to give unemployment benefits to part-time workers who are not currently eligible.
The survey covers full- and part-time workers who are paid a wage or salary.
It hired hundreds of part-time workers to visit patients and make sure they were taking their drugs.
The government estimates that the percentage of non-payers among self-employed and part-time workers is over 40 percent.
And if spending is more robust, businesses will first choose to offer existing part-time workers longer hours.
So to cope with a stagnant economy, they refrain from hiring college graduates and use more part-time workers.
The number of part-time workers has also continued to fall, reinforcing the picture of a tight labour market.
It gets even tougher as you use more outsourcing and part-time workers in order to be more flexible.
Others plan to shift to part-time workers, because there are no penalties if part-time employees aren't offered coverage.
The number of involuntary part-time workers who are unable to find full-time employment rose to 9.5 million in November.
Most of the trimming will be done through natural attrition, spin-offs of operations, more part-time workers and early retirements.
We also saw the number of involuntary part-time workers increase to 7.3 million.
To gain some flexibility, an additional 25, 000 to 40, 000 are temporary, part-time workers.
Simon said Wal-Mart will also give its part-time workers first crack at its full-time jobs, should they want one.
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The number of part-time workers for economic reasons grew to 8.6 million in September from 7.7 million in March.
Of the 21m part-time workers, about 6m are students, and another 2m are retirees seeking to supplement their pensions.
As a Wall Street Journal editorial calculated the other day, letting part-time workers work more hours can be expensive.
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Pensions should be designed so that they allow part-time workers to continue to contribute even after their official retirement age.
New stores are, however, cheaper, since land prices have dropped and there are now more low-cost, part-time workers to man them.
Further, the law imposes taxes on employers who fail to provide sufficiently generous insurance, with exceptions for part-time workers and small firms.
Some groups, including women who have been in and out of the workforce due to motherhood, part-time workers and carers, will gain.
Our staff went from three employees in 2007 to over 75 full-time employees and over 50 contractors or part-time workers in 2012.
For many business owners, the devil is in the details, such as whether part-time workers or "tipped employees" would be permitted to work for less.
Now, with customers scanning books themselves, the library is processing more books than ever while shaving 15 percent from staff hours by using fewer part-time workers.
In the most recent survey by America's Labour Department, fewer than 5% of part-time workers say they work part-time because they could not find full-time jobs.
Temporary and part-time workers, with little training and few career prospects, have increased from one-fifth to one-third of the labour force over the past 20 years.
The minimum wage directly affects only a very small percentage of the total full-time work force (1.5 out of 102 million), though lots of part-time workers too.
He supports the Healthy Families Act, which would require all but the smallest companies to grant a minimum amount of paid sick leave, even to part-time workers.
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