It has always denied that NUM members are being asked to work longer hours.
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This may, for instance, explain why optimists work longer hours and tend to earn more.
We think people should make their own decisions about whether to work longer hours.
With my business thriving now, I work longer hours than I did in my last corporate job.
Young people work longer hours and modern women, it seems, resent their partners spending their evenings at men-only clubs.
In the over-worked courts, cases were hurriedly rescheduled and sheriffs told that they would have to work longer hours.
Many economists think that this is why Americans work longer hours than Europeans.
And the figures show that only a small minority do work longer hours.
The labour market needs a shake-up to cut the cost of employing older workers and encourage people to work longer hours.
Where a lone parent has just one pre-school child, the incentives to work longer hours are still "relatively low", the report claims.
As well as extra shift payments existing staff are said to have been offered shopping vouchers to persuade them to work longer hours.
It says it allows managers to pressure staff to work longer hours under threat of losing their job or being overlooked for promotion.
Superior American growth in large part reflects the fact that America's population has been increasing faster and that Americans work longer hours than Europeans.
If it now takes away employees' rights, who will protect us when we are asked to work longer hours for the same amount of money?
But he adds that the complimentary services afforded him in these places enabled him to work longer hours and focus more on growing his companies.
I'm sure some would guess that the Germans work longer hours.
But the opt-out that we have now means you can only work longer hours if you choose to opt out of the 48-hour working week.
Self-employed people were also found to work longer hours than employees.
Studies over the past decade show that people who work at home or outside the office tend to work longer hours, contrary to employers' initial fears.
Many girls were taken out of school to help out at home because their mothers had to work longer hours for less pay, the report found.
The charity also suggests men are more likely to work full-time and to work longer hours than women, making access to services such as GP surgeries more difficult.
In fact, a recent study suggests that a majority of employers are responding to the economy by expecting employees to work longer hours than before the recession.
Welsh Secretary David Jones has rejected calls for the National Assembly for Wales to have more members - and suggested the existing 60 AMs should work longer hours instead.
Business groups also criticised the move, arguing that, during tougher economic times, firms needed more flexibility and people wanted the choice to work longer hours to make ends meet.
That is just as well, as Warburg bankers were expected to work longer hours than their rivals, even to take weekend strolls around Belgravia to chew over strategy with the boss.
As a result of such rigidities, Japan's labor productivity lags behind the OECD average and has been variously measured at between 60% to 70% of the U.S. level, though Japanese work longer hours.
For instance, what if many of the women allegedly denied promotions were secondary household breadwinners who didn't have the flexibility to work longer hours or switch stores, tasks that are routine for retail store managers?
As women wait longer to get married and as they work longer hours, e-commerce has been a godsend for brides planning weddings while working a full-time job (particularly if the wedding is out of town).
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