Argument continues about the White collar exemption that exempts specific white collar workers from the 8 hours in 1 day, 40 hours a week, working hours fixed by the Labour Standards Act.

Slave labour.

To cope with this problem, we had better quit working long hours, right?

Right across much of the world

The workman, as a rule, works eight hours a day.

Laborers normally work 8 hours per day.

The workman, as a rule, works eight hours a day.

Those weren't the easiest of days

Wasteful abusive and focused on labor productivity.

North America being a notable exception working hours have been coming down.

Other than a massive bill for overtime.

Next time you fucking use a birthcontrol pill Thank Emma

She also recognises that you are not slaves.

The workers union called off their 24 hour strike today.

Workers put up with silly rules for a long time.

The workers were laid off for three weeks.

The laborer was layed off for 3 weeks.

The laborers were layed off for 3 weeks.

That is one every 40 seconds.

They are demanding shorter working hours.

The other point is that it is hard.

Black people were compelled to work in cotton fields.

Let me write that down on the side here.

The Orions traffic in forced labor.

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German a thousand.

The enterprises carried the five day workweek.

Instead of laying off these workers, why don't we just cut their hours?

Nevertheless, there are ways to fix them without depending on public finance.

But now it's turned around.

The tighter the government financing becomes, the more the citizens are burdened by increasing taxes.

And if you go beyond sort of the country level, down at the micro company level, more and more companies now are realizing that they need to allow their staff either to work fewer hours or just to unplug to take a lunch break, or to go sit in a quiet room, to switch off their Blackberrys and laptops you at the back mobile phones, during the work day or on the weekend, so that they have time to recharge and for the brain to slide into that kind of creative mode of thought.

Martin Hafen

They need us to work in the factories, the labor camps.

The workers. The striver's.

A little background when my grade five was learning about child rights, they were made to roll incense sticks, agarbattis, for eight hours to experience what it means to be a child laborer.

She quit her job because of the low pay and long hours.

I'm one of the most active volunteer translators at TED.

The totality of this project involves tens of thousands of hours of human labor 99 percent of it done by women.

D Michael, what's your take on the people story? Are you interested?

If they volunteer. But these aren't slaves and I will not have them treated as such.

We can certainly see this in response to the current financial crisis.

For example, love might not be a scarce resource. You might have an infinite amount of love.

Paid work in Germany in the year 2001

Time limit

We alternated two hours of work and ten minutes of rest.