There is no maximum hour limit on employees, although the hospital is considering setting one, she said.
It wants higher basic pay with reduced overtime rates, plus lower limits on maximum hours and consecutive night shifts.
As Nicola Sturgeon came to London to argue last week, in a powerful speech for the Resolution Foundation, without shared European standards on minimum holidays, maximum hours and temporary contracts, every state would face a temptation to start a race to the bottom.
There are no maximum hours.
Surgical programmes came in for a particular pasting, with more than half the pediatric surgery programmes exceeding the maximum allowable hours on duty.
Keith S. Herzig of Willington, Conn., who owns three trucks that mostly haul cargo to Scranton, Pa., and back, said that at busy times he and the four drivers who work for him work to the current maximum, 10 hours on and 8 off, for several shifts in a row.
In retrospect, this question could be interpreted as: (i) the maximum number of hours on any one trip or (ii) the maximum number of cumulative hours driving across the last "year".
Andy Clarke, the boss of Britain's second-biggest supermarket chain, said that it is unfair to force shoppers to head to pricier convenience stores — a sector dominated by rivals Tesco, Sainsbury's and the Co-op — because larger stores can only open for a maximum of six hours on a Sunday.
Under current legislation shops of more than 280 square metres (3,000 square feet) can open for a maximum of six hours on a Sunday, and only between the hours of 10 00 and 18 00.
For three days a week over 20 days, Yang worked a maximum of five hours on the house.
