Word: workweek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inflicted such a devastating wound on himself and his party. And Jospin, who barely lost to Chirac in the last presidential election, has promised big changes. He and his allies said they would fight France's stubborn 12.8% unemployment rate by creating 700,000 government-backed jobs, reduce the workweek from 39 to 35 hours with no loss in pay, suspend planned privatizations, cut the sales tax and raise the minimum wage. The leftist platform, if implemented, threatens to send the deficits soaring and derail French chances of meeting the tough criteria for joining Europe's single currency, the euro...
Chirac: Because there are many variables we can work on, I am sure that we will find the necessary policies to return to a more or less normal situation. There is the length of the workday or workweek, for example, and new kinds of jobs. Half the professions that will exist 10 years from now are not even known today...
...state, according to a 1991 report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Those who don't work typically include the medically or mentally unfit, as well as the most dangerous offenders, the ones who can't be trusted to rake the yard without blinding another inmate. The average prisoner workweek is 34.5 hours. Federal inmates put in 37.5 hours--though that is still less than the 48 hours that would be required under a Senate bill sponsored by Republican Richard Shelby of Alabama...
...drastic measures can cause widespread unemployment and boost the crime rate. They could endanger the lives of children whose families rely on government assistance. Is there a way to lessen the misery of the people affected? Perhaps they could agree to a salary reduction or a shorter workweek rather than find themselves totally out of a job and unable to support their families. Public servants could start the ball rolling by contributing a reasonable portion of their pay to a victims' relief fund. Dominga L. Reyes Ojai, California...
...workers complain that for them expansion spells exhaustion. Throughout American industry, companies are using overtime to wring the most out of the U.S. labor force: the factory workweek currently is averaging a near record 42 hours, including 4.6 hours of overtime. Americans, observes Audrey Freedman, a labor economist and member of TIME's board, "are the workingest people in the world." The big-three automakers have pushed this trend to an extreme. Their workers are putting in an average of 10 hours overtime a week and laboring an average of six eight-hour Saturdays a year...