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The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was a United States trade union of air traffic controllers that operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following an illegal strike broken by the Reagan administration; in striking, the union violated 5 U.S.C. (Supp. III 1956) 118p (now 5 U.S.C. § 7311), which prohibits strikes by federal government employees.
The New Deal and the 40-Hour Work Week as a Moral and Social Issue. The 40-hour work week was a pragmatic solution to problems of industry and unemployment, but it was also a hard-fought victory ...
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]
Henry Ford's offer of $5 a day for eight hours of work was significant, but unions also fought for decades to set hour and wage rules for all workers. Fact check: Meme crediting only Ford for hour ...
US work culture revolves around employees putting in eight hours a day, five days a week — a schedule immortalized by Dolly Parton in her 1980 song “9 to 5.” It’s just the norm, many ...
4 Days, 40 Hours is a 1971 book by Riva Poor reporting on a "revolution in work and leisure" from a rearranged work week with four days of 10 hours each. [1] In some cases, the book claims, companies can increase production and profit while giving employees more time off. [2] [3]
Those already working an eight-hour day transitioned from a five-day work week to just four. Each employee is still paid for a full 40 hours each week, without any changes to their benefits.
In January 2022, D'Youville College announced a transition to a 4-day, 32-hour work week for all staff and administration without any change to employees pay or benefits. [107] The employees were previously working 37.5 hours per week. [107] This initiative was a follow-up to a pilot program in 2020 which received positive feedback from ...