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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.
Here, the working time per worker was around 2,456 hours per year, which is just under 47 hours per week. In Germany, on the other hand, it was just under 1,354 hours per year (26 per week and 3.7 per day), which was the lowest of all the countries studied. [1]
That five-day work week at 70 hours a week is 14 hours per day. With a six day work week, 70 hours is still over 11.5 hours per day. This article originally appeared on GOBankingRates.com: ...
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.
On Friday Bosch said it would cut the working hours of 450 employees from 38–40 hours per week to 35 hours per week, effectively giving employees an unwanted four-day week.
The first enforceable hours' law in the United States was in 1874 when Massachusetts enacted a law which limited the amount of time that women and children could work each week. [2] This limit was set at sixty hours per week. Similar laws were later adopted by about half of the country's states.
In the mid-1800s, working 70-plus hours a week was common, ... In the late 1930s, they created something that would establish across the board what we know today as the eight-hour-per-day, five ...
Some government and corporate employees now work a 9/80 work schedule (80 hours over 9 days during a two-week period)—commonly 9-hour days Monday to Thursday, 8 hours on one Friday, and off the following Friday. A person working more than full-time is working overtime, and may be entitled to extra per-hour wages (but not salary). [17]