"less hours" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, "I worked fewer hours this week than I did last week."
"Twenty-two less hours per pay period".
We don't like to see people working less hours.
"The contractors are paid more than our people for working less hours," Ms. Roberts said.
"The more hours I work," he said, "the less hours I get to hang out and get into trouble".
For those above that amount, they can endure the 20% lower wages for less hours – and they may even like it.
The team members were happy as they got to earn more money working less hours, while also learning the leadership skills that come with running one's own business.
"Our members would rather have a school aide for less hours than not have a school aide at all," he said.
The introduction of minimum fixed hours had also taken away any tools some managers use to discriminate against workers on a personal basis – and reward or punish them with more or less hours arbitrarily.
I've thought about leaving many times, but being a care worker is a real vocation to me and to be honest I'd still do it if I won the lottery – albeit less hours.
You have to email every September, cap in hand, saying: 'Is there any work for me this year?' Universities are giving their hourly-paid people less hours, therefore paying them less.
I and my colleague David Bell at Stirling University have constructed a more comprehensive and sophisticated measure, based on how many more (or less) hours workers would like to supply at the going wage rate, which we publish quarterly.
