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It can also set the work-week for public servants, which creates a trend that private employers often follow.
Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011
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EJH: Government doesn't directly set the work-week, but can influence it through rules that establish the point at which an employer must pay overtime, and various other benefit rates.
Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011
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Dan -- to make the big bucks on wall street figure on working a 60 to 80 hour work-week essentially every week.
Who Are the High Earners?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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SB: Most of the resolution concerns environmental or economic issues, but there is also a call to "shorten the work-week."
Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011
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However, in recent decades, productivity gains have been captured entirely by employers/investors, with the length of the work-week staying the same or even lengthening, while chronic unemployment/underemployment slowly grows.
Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011
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In addition to those certainties, expect the new regular work-week to instantly morph into
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I got another bear tag this year, and hope to get out in the statewide season (DURING the work-week - thanks, PA), with no deer to cloud my thoughts.
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For all that, the labor code still demands a maximum 41-hour regular work-week and a minimum of 24 days of paid vacation.
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I got another bear tag this year, and hope to get out in the statewide season (DURING the work-week - thanks, PA), with no deer to cloud my thoughts.
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What role do you believe government has in determining the length of the work-week?
Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011
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