Sentence examples for longer workdays from inspiring English sources

The detectives would accept changes including longer workdays, and would receive pay raises phased in until 2008.

Mr. Bloomberg is seeking a broad array of such concessions, like longer workdays for civilian city employees, fewer vacations and possibly longer workweeks.

Today, posters attribute the so-called obesity epidemic to laziness, vice and bad habits, rather than, say, the ubiquitousness of cheap junk food, particularly in poorer communities, or the mounting pressure on employees to sit at desks for ever longer workdays, or the slapdash construction of car-based communities without so much as a Potemkin sidewalk on which to take a salubrious stroll.

Instead of the $600 million in labor savings sought by the mayor, the budget that must be approved by July 1 will likely be balanced with spending cuts and revenue measures, not through labor concessions like longer workdays or fewer vacation days.

The settlement covers supervisors who weren't paid for overtime or for working longer workdays.

In a 2007 paper, economists Lonnie Golden and Morris Altman summarized the myriad reasons research has shown workers don't seek fewer hours: Employers use longer workdays to screen out less productive workers, while employees put in more hours to build up savings in case they're fired.

"Getting there late means a longer workday," Mr. Baronette said.

I can state, as a former trucker, that a longer workday does have a debilitating effect on safety.

Those include a pay cut, the end of retirement plan contributions, lower company contributions to health care plans, a longer workday and lower severance pay.

In the 45-minute negotiating session, James F. Hanley, the city's labor commissioner, advanced a proposal that Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has stressed in recent days: a longer workday, although Mr. Hanley did not say how much longer.

Ms. Weingarten, for example, hinted that she was willing to experiment with a longer workday and year for teachers, perhaps starting with a small group of schools whose teachers agreed to the changes.