Sentence examples for half for work from inspiring English sources

Half for work, half for pleasure.

Under their union contract, they are guaranteed at least $5.15 an hour and, unlike before, time and a half for work on Sundays and for all hours worked above 40 hours each week.

The long-awaited new rule requires that employers provide overtime pay of time and a half for work over 40 hours per week to professional employees who earn less than $913 a week or $47,476 a year, with certain exceptions.

Under the agreement, the attendants are to receive time and a half for working New Year's Day, Memorial Day and Christmas.

O'Hara said hourly workers receive time-and-a-half for working Thanksgiving Day, which is generally the case at many large retailers.

The law also mandates that workers receive 10 hours of rest between shifts, or else get paid an overtime rate of time and half for their work.

Starting in December, anyone who is a salaried worker and makes less than $47,476 must be paid time and a half for any work beyond 40 hours a week.

For each job available, there are three and a half people looking for work, and Lance Roberts wonders if the unemployment rate is 7.8 percent or 22 percent.

There is no federal policy for paid leave and, for roughly half of working Americans, getting even unpaid mandatory time off for a newborn remains an unavailable luxury.

In California, workers must make over twice the minimum wage, or $41,600, in order to be exempt from receiving time-and-a-half pay for working more than 8 hours per day.

They've either got to pay the employees time-and-a-half for any work over 40 hours, or they've got to hire enough people that nobody has to work 80 hours a week.