At the start of 2008, total weekly hours in the UK stood at around 950 million.
They forecast average weekly hours to tick down to 34.3 (from 34.4 in October).
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How is this decision affected by a cut in weekly hours per worker from 40 to 35?
However, the government has promised stricter implementation of an agreement cutting weekly hours to a maximum of 56.
The figure for average weekly hours worked is still dropping slightly, indicating further slack in the labour market.
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Average weekly hours of work did not decline more than in previous bad recessions and have begun to increase.
August jobs data (the unemployment rate, change in nonfarm payrolls, wages and weekly hours) and the ISM services index will be published on Friday.
Very roughly, in the past half-century the average weekly hours worked by married women have tripled, while hours worked by men and single women have stayed about constant.
The report compiled by the Home Affairs Committee sets out the pay, weekly hours, other activities and staff costs for each of the 41 police areas in England and Wales.
From April, couples with children who work part-time will have to increase their weekly hours from 16 to 24 to be eligible for tax credits worth thousands of pounds a year.
The network's dismal showing led Zucker to replace five weekly hours of costly scripted drama with The Jay Leno Show, a financially minded decision that's been blasted by many in the creative community.
From April 2012, the total weekly hours that a couple with children need to work in order to qualify for working tax credit will go up from 16 to 24, with one partner needing to work at least 16 hours a week.
Similarly, a study of University of Chicago MBAs, with Marianne Bertrand, found that, a decade after graduation, women with children work on average 24% fewer weekly hours than men. (Women without children work about 3% fewer hours.) Only half of them work full-time.
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With weekly happy hours, a snack bar, craft days, organized runs and even an in-office photo booth.
Aberdeenshire was also faced with less rainfall per year and slightly more weekly sunshine hours than the Scottish average.
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Where will you have your weekly happy hours?
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Nearly half of them spend between one and five hours weekly on social media, and one-third spend no time at all.
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.
Comporium is the local cable company there and apparently, they couldn't come to terms with the local NBC affiliate, WCNC, on 20 hours of weekly high-def programming.
Yet he has parlayed the art of being inoffensive--as well as considerable business smarts and superhuman drive--into 35 hours of weekly airtime and a Rolodex the envy of TMZ.
In the first two semesters, the students take basic skills classes for four hours per week, whereas in the final two semesters this weekly total is reduced to two hours.
For employment to rise as work hours fall, Mr Fitzgerald reckons, weekly wages must decline proportionately more than work hours.
In summer the resort hosts two weekly dog and owner happy hours, Fido Fridays and Bachelor Brunch.
Thousands of housing counselors across the nation commit numerous hours on a weekly basis to assist families facing foreclosure.
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Our latest estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls (workers X hours X hourly pay) for production workers still shows a downshift in 2012, though that is likely to be revised up.
An employee who kicks his legs up on his desk and spends a couple hours flipping through Us Weekly will receive a well-earned reprimand from his boss.
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The GMB complained in January that weekly-paid staff had been missing extra hours and basic pay and had needed to queue at the company's office to get emergency cash.
Mr Fitzgerald calculates that, if weekly wages fall by 12.5%, exactly matching the reduction in hours worked, and if output per man-hour remains the same, then employment would actually decline slightly.
Official unemployment sits at 8.9%, average weekly earnings have declined the last three months, and the aggregate number of hours worked grew a paltry 0.2% in February, after showing no improvement in January.
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