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  • We recommend employers provide shiftworker lifestyle training to help their shiftworkers (and spouses) handle exactly the kind of stresses you and your readers are mentioning.

    Do you get a weekend? | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • You have to be either a shiftworker or a layabout to have seen his daytime TV show.

    The Thief , The Princess , The Butler and his Wine Newmania 2007

  • Likewise with shift work (my husband is a shiftworker), a lifetime of this type of employment (especially the late-night shifts from around midnight to early morning) has been shown to lead to many complaints ranging from depression to higher rates of cancer or heart disease and premature death - yes, research results gained from the study of large groups of these workers over time have shown this disturbing outcome.

    Feeling Depressed? 2007

  • After her father passed away, her mother was able to live comfortably due in part to his pension as a shiftworker.

    Remarks of Senator Barack Obama at the AARP Life@50+ National Expo 2008

  • We recommend employers provide shiftworker lifestyle training to help their shiftworkers and spouses handle exactly the kind of stresses you and your readers are mentioning.

    Do you get a weekend? | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • Actually I'm Jimmy Hughson from Scunthorpe, married with eight kids, shiftworker at the steelworks and I just wanted a little fantasy in my life.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • He'd arrive home from his job as a shiftworker at the pipe works and start cooking up a storm until their mother arrived home from her day job.

    What I cooked last night. 2004

  • He'd arrive home from his job as a shiftworker at the pipe works and start cooking up a storm until their mother arrived home from her day job.

    Archive 2004-11-01 2004

  • It is believed the occupant, a shiftworker, was at work at the time of the blaze.

    The Border Mail - Front Page 2010

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