Sentence examples for holiday for workers from inspiring English sources

Traders were relieved by news that Congress extended emergency unemployment benefits and a payroll tax holiday for workers.

While the first Labor Day was created by striking, the idea of a special holiday for workers was easy for politicians to support.

The fight over the student loan bill mirrors a similar skirmish last year over the extension of a payroll tax holiday for workers, in which each party is trying to claim the title of best friend to the middle class.

And so Britain established a variety of new schemes and systems, for people on holiday, for workers in certain sectors, and for university graduates; and when the A8 countries joined the European Union in 2004, nationals from those countries were allowed to work in Britain right away.

Fairs and festival holidays provided time off from the physically intense jobs that the Industrial Revolution provided (the traditional two-week holiday for workers in Glasgow is still called "the Glasgow Fair"), and travelling showmen abounded (Punch and Judy men, travelling salesmen, and buskers).

By The New Yorker September 1, 2010 Labor Day has its origins at the end of the nineteenth century, when President Grover Cleveland rushed legislation through Congress, calling for a national holiday for workers in an effort to placate the nation's powerful unions and gain a foothold for his reëlection campaign.

Strikes broke out in the same year and led the tripartite government of Paul van Zeeland to establish paid holidays for workers and a 40-hour workweek for miners.

It began in the 1930's with the introduction of the first guaranteed paid holidays for workers, and by the 1950's "dead August" had become a celebration of the French art de vivre.

In Brighton, Ed Miliband traced the roots of the squeeze on wages back to before the crash, suggesting that in an economy where the rich cleaned up, the "vital link" between industrial progress on the one hand, and new cars and foreign holidays for workers on the other, had got broken.

Unlike many other wealthy nations, the U.S. doesn't guarantee paid vacation or holidays for workers.

A slightly lower majority – 68% – opposed the idea of cutting weekend and public holiday rates for workers in retail and hospitality, including 53% of Coalition voters.