Sentence examples for variable hours from inspiring English sources

"A landlord might be concerned if they knew a prospective tenant was on a zero-hours contract because tenants who rely heavily on commission or variable hours tend to have a fluctuating income," he said.

I saw so many part-time nurses working variable hours.

Zero-hours contracts, agency work, hourly pay, variable hours and fixed-term contracts – all make up the new precarious environment.

All workers in industries that impose variable hours and use short shifts and on-call workers should consider emulating that model.

Many companies, though, schedule a fraction of their work force on variable hours: some weeks, or months, a variable-hour employee may work, say, 35 hours; in others, 25 hours.

The independent variable, hours spent teaching evolution, included five categories: 0, 1 to 5, 6 to 10, 11 to 15, and greater than 15 hours.

The variable hour-based primary health care services includes home care nursing, practical assistance at home, day center visits, and other types of support to persons living at home.

This variable was created by combining three screen time variables; hours spent watching TV/videos, playing video games and using a computer (<1 hour, 1-3hours, >3 hours).

In addition to baseline outcome measurements, as appropriate, the baseline questionnaire will include: Sociodemographic variables Work-related variables: hours of paid work, job type, physical work load (items from questionnaire developed by Bot et al [ 24]), psychosocial work environment (items from Job Content Questionnaire [ 25]).

Since the study was a secondary data analysis, indicators of the study variables (hours of care, age, gender, social support, stressful life events, perceived stress, depression, physical function, self-esteem and marital satisfaction) were selected from the Americans' Changing Lives Survey questionnaires, based on face validity.

In its preliminary rules, released late last year, the I.R.S. devised an approach to the problem of the variable-hour employee that it calls the "look-back measurement method".