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Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention: 1930 C030: 30 1. Working time: Underground Work (Women) Convention: 1935 C045: 98 1. Safety: Forty-Hour Week Convention: 1935 C047: 15 1. Working time: Officers' Competency Certificates Convention: 1936 C053: 53 Seafarers: Minimum Age (Sea) Convention (Revised) 1936 C058: 51 Seafarers
Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 is an International Labour Organization Convention. It was established in 1919: Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the "application of the principle of the 8-hour working day or of the 48-hours week"...
Today the average hours worked in the U.S. is around 33, [22] with the average man employed full-time for 8.4 hours per work day, and the average woman employed full-time for 7.9 hours per work day. [23] The front runners for lowest average weekly work hours are the Netherlands with 27 hours, [24] and France with 30 hours. [25]
Denmark has an official 37-hour working week, with primary work hours between 6:00 and 18:00, Monday to Friday. In public institutions, a 30-minute lunch break every day is included as per collective agreements, so that the actual required working time is 34.5 hours. In private companies, the 30-minute lunch break is normally not included.
Holiday leave is accrued from previous full year of employment, i.e. in the first year of employment, a worker is entitled to 25 working days of leave, but they will be unpaid. After one year of full employment, the employee shall be entitled to 25 working days of paid holidays. Employees over the age of 60 are entitled to 30 days.
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This allows employers to adopt a single metric for comparison with the full-time average. For example, a full week of 40 hours has an FTE value of 1.0, so a person working 20 hours would have an FTE value of 0.5. Certain industries may adopt 35 hours, depending on the company, its location and the nature of work. Whole-time equivalent (WTE) is ...