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labour law
(redirected from 40-hour working week)

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labour law
n
(Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) those areas of law which appertain to the relationship between employers and employees and between employers and trade unions


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If they complete a 40-hour working week, possibly some overtime, and have to comply with two hours weekly training, it leaves them little time for fire fighting duties before they hit the 48 hour limit.
The deals at these shops have been so good, the clothes so on-trend, the scope for instant gratification so high that we have on the whole refused to believe that perhaps £8 cocktail dresses do not leave much of a margin for four weeks' holiday, health insurance and a 40-hour working week for those who make them, even when the exchange rate is as obliging as it tends to be in the developing countries where these workers live.
They are frequently made to work beyond the legally permitted 36 hours of overtime a month on top of their normal 40-hour working week.
 
 
 
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