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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 [1] (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. [2] [3] It also prohibits employment of minors in "oppressive child labor". [4]
The eight-hour work day was established in Finland in 1917 as a result of the November general strike. According to the law accepted in late 1917, maximum work day was 8 hours and maximum work week 47 hours. Five-day work week was established gradually between 1966 and 1970. [20]
On paper, the 40-hour work week is still the law. In practice, the most overworked country in the industrialized world appears to be regressing. More From GOBankingRates
Most office workers have flexible working hours and can largely decide themselves on how to divide these over the week. The working week is regulated by Arbetstidslagen (Work time law) to a maximum of 40 hours per week. [96] The 40-hour-week is however easily bypassed by overtime. The law allows a maximum of 200 hours overtime per year. [97]
The bill, titled the “Thirty-Two Hour Work Week Act,” would reduce the standard workweek from 40 to 32 hours over the span of four years, including lowering the maximum hours required for ...
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.
But even a five-day, 40-hour work week is, in large part, thanks to unions. Unions were a major force in instituting the standard practice of a five-day, 40-hour work week, said Benedict Hunnicutt ...
The 40-hour week movement, or eight-hour day movement, was a social movement to regulate the length of a working day. 40-hour week may also refer to: Labor law and history