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Your Sept. 17 news article about "overtime fatigue" correctly identifies many of the problems unaddressed by federal and state laws regulating overtime work (like employers' mandating increasingly unrealistic and dangerously excessive hours of work).
These can be further broken down into subcategories (e.g. working conditions), which can be measured by indicators (e.g. excessive hours of work).
Additionally, human rights issues within the production of clothing and textiles, including forced and child labor, low wages, excessive hours of work with unpaid overtime, health and safety hazards, and lack of worker representation for negotiations with management also generate serious social and economic sustainability challenges.
Substantial opportunities for employment and income gains exist, but: "Global value chain pressures are [also] associated with increasing casualization of labour and excessive hours of work" [ 54](p. 25).
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"When negotiations began with the British Medical Association in 2012, there was an implicit agreement that a new contract would not involve forcing doctors to work the excessive hours of the past.
Sweatshops often involve poverty-level wages, excessive hours of labour, and unsafe or unhealthful workplace conditions.
"At present, violations of employees' rights in private firms are to some extent widespread," the federation wrote, with problems including the refusal of companies to sign labor contracts, illegal docking of wages, excessive hours, terrible work conditions and frequent injuries.
Ms. Soyster recalled the case of a company that tracked employees' movements within the building electronically and discovered that an especially unproductive employee spent excessive hours at work.
The Guardian, which interviewed workers in Dhaka, confirmed the allegations of excessive hours and poor working conditions in the report.
At a Westminster magistrates court hearing on Tuesday, lawyers for the union argued it should be allowed to raise allegations of excessive hours worked by Uber drivers and its impact on public safety.
Not bad for 12 hours of work.
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