The phrase "obligatory work" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to work that is required or mandated by law, rule, or regulation. Here is an example sentence: "According to the company's policies, employees are required to complete 40 hours of obligatory work each week."
Every sanction meant she couldn't afford the cost of the bus journey to the obligatory work programme meetings, which meant she got sanctioned again.
Christine, who hated uniforms, was almost ashamed at how handsome she found him in his obligatory work suit and tie, but she also loved him restored to his crumpled, worn-out old clothes, youth and beauty glowing steadily through them.
Yet while service to others can build a capacity for purpose that endures into later life, says Damon, director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, those activities should be something that a young person truly enjoys and finds appealing – not just obligatory work.
Yet while service to others can build a capacity for purpose that endures into later life, said William Damon, an education professor and director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, those activities should be something that a young person truly enjoys and finds appealing – not just obligatory work.
The report concluded that the obligatory work focused interviews and early medical assessment in Pathways were the key aspects of the programme that move people off benefits and into work, whilst the voluntary components, such as the Condition Management Programme and Return to Work Credit, apparently had no additional employment impact.
Perhaps it takes a poignant drunkenness to complete obligatory works celebrating, in Motion's case, the Queen and Duke's diamond anniversary and Princes' rites of passage.
Then, of course, there are the obligatory works by Hokusai and Hiroshige, the leading makers of the ukiyo-e prints that heavily influenced Western artists like Manet and Degas.
There are obligatory works by the well-known, including the photographer Catherine Opie's 2008 take on high-school football and a black-and-white gem from 1979 by Cindy Sherman, in Sonja Henie mode as a stocking-capped figure skater.
There's the obligatory voluntary work, answering phones at 5am for close to a year for me … local radio roadshows are fun but I can't pretend I've not been slightly humiliated dressed as a "sexy santa".
An excessive number of patients, lack of personnel, failure to recruit new personnel according to standards and obligatory overtime work left nurses feeling angry, violated and exploited without any control over the situation.
Basically, the Directive lays down general requirements as to rest breaks (obligatory if working day exceeds 6 hours), weekly rest (minimum 24 hours including, in principle, Sunday), maximum weekly working time (48 hours) and annual leave (minimum 4 weeks).
