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In the Netherlands, the Working Hours Act grants workers 30 minutes of unpaid break time if they work for over 5.5 hours, which may also be taken in two 15 minute breaks. Workers are granted a 45 minute break if they work for over 10 hour, which may also be taken in 15 minute intervals. Longer breaks may be established through collective ...
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.
Typical working hours for this type of shift would be 06:00 to 15:30 (9 hours with 30 minutes lunch) and 06:00 to 14:30 (8 hours with 30 minutes lunch) on the 8-hour work day. Often the employer will alter the starting times (e.g., start at 07:00 or 08:00).
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 ...
For those of us who have that standard 9 to 5 job -- listen closely because we've got a few things you definitely want to hear. While that 8-hour work day may be paying the bills and feel somewhat ...
The 996 working hour system (Chinese: 996工作制) is a work schedule practiced illegally by some companies in China. It derives its name from its requirement that employees work from 9 :00 am to 9 :00 pm, 6 days per week; i.e. 72 hours per week, 12 hours per day.
While 2008 may well go down in history as the start of the current recession, it looks like 2009 may be the year of the four day work week. Many companies, struggling to stay afloat, are turning ...
The weekly maximum was limited to 60 hours over 7 days (non-daily drivers), or 70 hours over 8 days (daily drivers). These rules allowed for 12 hours of work within a 15-hour period, 9 hours of rest, with 3 hours for breaks within a 24-hour day.