Sentence examples for shorter workdays from inspiring English sources

Several hundred gendarmes drove their service vehicles to the force's national headquarters in a protest demanding better pay and shorter workdays.

Mr. Shanks said Ford would lay off temporary workers, slow the speed of its European assembly lines and institute shorter workdays.

Specifically, Mr. Bloomberg criticized the arbitration panel for casting aside a draft decision that would have required police officers to work 10 additional tours a year in exchange for shorter workdays and a raise of nearly 14percentt.

Advocates believed that shorter workdays would mean more jobs, that more jobs would spur consumer spending, that increased leisure would lead to a healthier and more educated workforce, and that all the blundering cyclicality of the economy would vanish.

Tom Geoghegan, a Chicago labor lawyer, said, "This is the perfect time to toast those people who were fighting for higher wages, shorter workdays and more time with their families".

Still, the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonprofit policy group, said in a report issued last week that New York City teachers spend less time teaching than their counterparts in the rest of the state, and they have shorter workdays than teachers in many other large cities.

Locals make up only 3percentt of the private work force, experts here said, with Emiratis opting for the shorter workday and higher pay of guaranteed government jobs.

City officials have proposed some ideas for increased efficiency -- reducing the number of firefighters on some trucks to four, from five, and giving the police a slightly shorter workday in exchange for 10 extra shifts a year.

Efficiency was meant to lead to a shorter workday, but, in the final two decades of the twentieth century, the average American added a hundred and sixty-four hours of work in the course of a year; that's a whole extra month's time, but not, typically, a month's worth of either happiness minutes or civic participation.

His next and probably largest hurdle: Marat Safin, the powerhouse if unpredictable Russian who eliminated Pete Sampras with panache and had a much shorter workday than Haas on Wednesday after his quarterfinal opponent, the South African veteran Wayne Ferreira, retired trailing by 2-5 in the opening set with a stomach muscle injury.

The only way for them to benefit from the shorter workday, therefore, would be to make it illegal to work longer than nine hours a day.