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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Often they do that in a shadow economy -- a place where employers may offer them less than the minimum wage or make them work overtime without extra pay.

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But you could, instead, look at ways of increasing your income, whether by looking for a better rate of interest on savings income, or asking for a salary increase or more overtime at work.

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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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First Group members would also not work any unscheduled overtime or on rest days on 11 and 17 November, it added.

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Another strike is planned for 9 November and staff will not work any unscheduled overtime or on rest days on 11 and 17 November.

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In addition, many workers are not compensated for time that they work off-the-clock or are not paid appropriate overtime wages.

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There's a schedule of pay bumps for overtime, for night shoots, for very-late night shoots, for wet work (rain or snow), for smoky work (cigarettes or manufactured haze) and, on some productions, for showing up in wardrobe that's out of sync with the seasons say, shorts and sandals for a beach scene in the dead of winter.

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