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  • The bill reshuffled the 40-hour workweek by requiring state employees to work four, 10-hour days, affording them a a three-day weekend every week.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Gingrich Staffers Break Free Eliot Nelson 2011

  • Kern County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Shelly Castaneda, explained that the two deputies involved in this shooting had not attended a 40-hour mental health-training course offered to some deputies.

    Eliyahu Federman: Police Fatally Shoot Mentally Ill Teen Eliyahu Federman 2012

  • Most prisoners will be expected to work a full 40-hour week instead of spending their days in enforced idleness in cells, under plans to be unveiled by the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, today.

    Ken Clarke to unveil plans for prisoners to work 40-hour week Alan Travis 2010

  • Union advocacy for minimum occupational health and safety standards, a 40-hour work week, family and medical leave, and the minimum wage has raised living standards for union and non-union workers alike.

    Wade Henderson, Esq.: I Am Still a Man Esq. Wade Henderson 2011

  • And yes, I work a 40-hour+ week at a time when (in the past) I might have been retired.

    Let me tell you how it will be (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Cameron forced to defend child benefit cuts, prisoners set to work a 40-hour week; and why young people are more interested in each other than religion

    Society daily 05.10.10 Patrick Butler 2010

  • According to a 2004 MIT study, a modern worker needs to work 11 hours to produce as much as someone in 1950 working a 40-hour week.

    How Wilson Greatbatch 'Gave Back' 2011

  • Harvard Law School last year launched a problem-solving class for first-year students, and Stanford Law School is considering making a full-time clinical course—which entails several 40-hour plus weeks of actual case work—a graduation requirement.

    Law Schools Get Practical Patrick G. Lee 2011

  • Workers were attacked and killed for the sole reason that they wanted to form a union; there was no 40-hour week, minimum wage, job security, overtime pay or virtually any other limit on the exploitation of employees.

    Real Caricature, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Union advocacy for minimum occupational health and safety standards, a 40-hour work week, family and medical leave, and the minimum wage has raised living standards for union and non-union workers alike.

    Wade Henderson, Esq.: I Am Still a Man Esq. Wade Henderson 2011

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