working week

But the next day was Monday, the beginning of the working week, when there were no best clothes and no visitors.

That investigation also found a six-day working week, with staff working up to 288 hours a month.

As a software developer in Boulder, Colorado, I had a working week of 60 to 80 hours, as well as building my own company on the side.

Examples are staggered hours, flexi-time, working out of the office and compressed working week.

With no limit to the working week, the long hours continue to take their toll on teachers' health and their lives outside work.

The working week used to be six days, so the weekend used to mean Saturday evening and Sunday.

Your co-workers, the location of the company and how a typical working week is structured.

Workers tended to beaver away for the first few days of the working week in any case, before hitting a plateau and then slackening off.

20% of men admit to viewing porn at work during the working week, while 13% of women admit the same.

The average worker spends almost one working week a year on such sites.

What will be the result of reducing the working week from forty hours to thirty (without any increase in hourly pay)?

But, instead too many of us now actively dread the thought of the two-day break as it has become busier than the working week!

This man used to talk on his mobile phone for about six hours a day, every day of his working week, for a couple of years.

People are being urged to stay at home on Thursday evenings at the end of the working week, when the streets usually bustle.

At the end of his working week at Ogilvy, Rushdie always took a long hot bath.

Toyota's working week now runs from Sunday to Wednesday, helping to spread electricity usage more evenly across the seven-day cycle.

Cox had already reduced her working week down to three days and had publicly admitted the difficulty of combining different roles.

The bargain they reached with their employers was to reduce their wage claim in return for a shorter working week.

The labour union bargained with the management for a shorter working week when they negotiated the renewal of workers'contract.

But our concept of what we need has continually expanded and the working week has got correspondingly longer.

When I go down to the kitchen at the end of my working week, my wife says I have to do something about the youngest one.

Workers have rejected a pay offer of 3% in favor of a 4% increase linked with a shorter working week.

The first is a reduction in the standard working week from forty hours to thirty without any change in the hourly rate of pay.

Under Mitterrand, it was the wealth tax. Under Mr Jospin, it was Ms Aubry's 35-hour working week.

There are also hopes that the 35-hour working week will be made less of a burden; and that the bloated civil service will be cut.

of these is the proposal to shorten the working week, usually by law.

We assume that the working week is cut from forty hours to thirty, with no change in hourly pay.

Sarin offers a very competitive package including good base salary, social benefits, 5 days working week and extended holidays.

The trade union put in a claim for a shorter working week.

IT IS not often that a national parliament debates and approves a four-year economic and financial framework within a single working week.

EU ministers are set for a crunch meeting which could weaken a UK opt-out from the 48-hour working week.

Unless you are a complete loner, you will probably have lunch with one or more colleagues during the working week.

The first working week of the new decade has been characterised by a curious mix of cold and hot air.

Ms Aubry, a former labour minister, is famous as the architect of the 35-hour working week.

It has a short working week, militant unions and high unemployment.

GAZ truckmaker stopped the production line till October 13 and KamAZ shortened a working week by a third.

Another leading indicator, the average working week, fell to a new record low of 33 hours.

At 33. 3 hours, the average working week is the shortest since at least 1964.

They moved a resolution demanding a forty-four-hour working week.

Ms Aubry is a former labour minister, best-known for introducing the 35-hour working week to France.

Mott MacDonald (Beijing) Limited has a five day 8 hour working week, Monday to Friday inclusive.

Civil servants' working week has already been increased from 37. 5 to 40 hours, a way of reducing overtime payments.

The standard working week in China is 49 hours a week.

In 1973, the imposition of a three-day working week saw the FTSE All Share Index fall 31pc.

My working week and my Sunday rest.

Germany faces a big test when the glow of the car scrapping and short working week schemes runs out.

40 hours is a fairly average working week for most people.

It clung to its 35-hour working week and saw the minimum wage creep up by 17% between 2002 and 2005.

They looked at what happened when France reduced the working week from 39 hours to 35.

And compressed working week so that they can work fewer days in the office.

Anxiety about the working week officially starts at 4. 13pm on a Sunday, a poll of 2, 000 adults has found.

Live apart during the working week,

Oxford to Stoke via London: a working week that