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The eight-hour work day was became legal in Italy on 17 April 1925, after a law passed 15 March 1923 [25] authorized the king to set a limit on daily work hours, and a royal decree issued on 10 September 1923. The law set a maximum limit of work at 8 hours per day, albeit for six days a week for a 48-hour work week. [26]
Employees work in two-week cycles. Week 1, the employee works 4 days of 9 hours followed by 1 day of 8 hours with 2 days off (i.e. 44 hours). Week 2, the employee works 4 days of 9 hours with 3 days off (i.e. 36 hours). Like 8 hours a day for 5 days a week, this plan works to 80-hours in a two-week pay-period.
The party Vänsterpartiet (the left party) is advocating a 6 hour working day without decreased pay. [17] [18] Miljöpartiet de gröna (The green party) has the goal of a 30 hour workweek. [18] Other parties advocating for 6 hour working day are: the Communist Party of Sweden [19] and the Communist Party (sweden). [20]
Times relative to the designation are indicated with +/−[Arabic numeral] after the letter, replacing -day or -hour with a count of the same unit: "D−1" (the day before D-Day), "L+9" (9 hours after L-Hour) etc. [citation needed] In less formal contexts, the symbol or numeral may be spelled out: "D minus 1" or "L plus nine." [citation needed ...
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Parts of a driver's work day are defined in four terms: On-duty time, off-duty time, driving time, and sleeper berth time.. FMCSA regulation §395.2 states: [5]. On-duty time is all time from when a driver begins to work or is required to be in readiness to work until the driver is relieved from work and all responsibility for performing work.
The official government working week is Monday to Friday; 8 hours per day, except Friday which is 7 hours, and 39 hours in total per week. Official work hours run from 08:30 am to 05:30pm with one hour for lunch from 12:30pm to 01:30pm. On Friday, lunch hour runs from 2:00 pm to 6:00 to allow Muslims to attend Friday prayers.
Brazil has a 44-hour work week, normally 8 hours per day and 4 hours on Saturday or 8.8 hours per day. Jobs with no meal breaks or on-duty meal breaks are 6 hours per day. Public servants work 40 hours per week. Lunch breaks are one hour and are not usually counted as work. A typical work schedule is 8:00 or 9:00–12:00, 13:00–18:00.