The movie, "The Hours," begins in England, 1923. It and opens with Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) writing a farewell letter to her husband before she drowns herself in the Ouse River near their home, "Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel that we can't go through another of these...
Third, the problem or incident arose during work hours in a work location, and fourth, the act in question must be of the general type the employee was hired to perform. ... The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) extracted the computer board from the semi and reported findings that the semi was traveling 20mph over the speed limit 60 seconds before the collision, despite two warning and reduced speed signs prior to the scene of the accident.8 According to Dave McLennan of Coulter, Iowa, employed by Decker Trucking Line Inc., truck drivers are limited by federal law to 14-hour shifts w...
The sentence of imprisonment had to be suspended and a judge had to impose at least one of the following probation conditions: at least seventy-two hours in jail, at least seventy-two hours of community service, at least ninety days of not driving, or any combination of the above three (Loeb 72). ... The sentence of imprisonment had to be suspended, and the judge had to impose at least one of the following conditions of probation: forty-eight hours in jail, forty-eight hours of community service, sixty days of not driving, or any combination of the above three. ... The sentence of imprison...
In the Muller case, the court agreed to limit women's working hours, which gave the public the reverse decision only three years after the Lochner v. ... In fact, the 1895 New York Bakeshop Act which placed limit on working hours for bakers intended to protect the rights of workers. ... Even if the outcome of the Muller case was comparatively fair because the limit on women's working hours could indeed protect women's health, the way the court argued was unjust. ... Influenced by the law of limiting on working hours, women had even fewer choices of jobs and they were likely to ...
Department of Labor's Employment Standards Administration, Wage and Hour Division, who administers and enforces the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for all private, state and local government employee and some federal employees. ... To be eligible for FMLA benefits, an employee must work for an employer that is covered, have worked for the employer for at least 12 months, have worked at least 1,250 hours in those 12 months, and have worked in the United States where the employer has at least 50 employees that are employed by the company and live within a 75 mile radius. ... The Airl...
According to American Enterprise Institute, "research published in 2010 by economists Joseph Sabia and Richard Burkhauser concluded that if the Federal Minimum Wage were increased from $7.25 an hour to $9.50 an hour, only 11.3% of workers who would gain from the increase belong to poor households" (Hassett, Strain, 2013). ... The truth behind the matter is a high school or college student who is making minimum wage at $7.25 an hour is not going to stay at the same minimum wage paying job whether or not it is making $7.25 an hour or $10.10 per hour. ... With the minimum wage where...
As estimated by Phipps et al. (2001), "women currently working full time, average total hours of unpaid work are 33.5 per week". However, "women who have ever had children do, on average, much more unpaid work (42.5 hours per week) than women who have never had children (13.4 hours per week)". Among that 42.5 hours, women with children "spend more time doing child care (24.4 hours per week) than doing house work (20.0 hours per week)". ... Women with children would refuse to work overtime or participate in special project because they have to do unpaid work around 30 hours per week more than n...
Work hours is especially important in the case of maternal gatekeeping. When there is a difference in work hours for the spouses, there will be a difference in the time able to spend with their children. The "shift-worker" couples in Ranson (2010) all had the fathers and mothers accommodate their work hours, so they can be the caregivers. ... Due to work hours, the time for Denise to spend with her son, Daniel, is substantially lower than Gary. ... The study took a sample from employed mothers in dual-earner families with preschool-age children that each work an average of around thi...
The rural and agricultural life turned to urban industrial with longer working hours and away from family. ... "Hand spinners in India required 50,000 hours to produce 100 pounds of cotton yarn. Cromptons' mule could do the same task in 2000 hours; Arkwright's steam-powered frame took 300 hours; and automatic mules took 135 hours.... It serviced the Manchester-Liverpool route, reaching a speed of 16 miles per hour. ... Monday when no work was done gave way to a week in which work of twelve to sixteen hours a day stopped at either midday or the end of the day on Saturday. ...
This margin was "sweated- from the workers because they received minimal wages for excessive hours worked under unsanitary conditions (Mason, 33). ... With these prices declining each year by as much as 25%, contractors are forced to "sweat- a profit from garment workers by working them long hours at low wages (Mason, 34). ... In the U.S., garment workers typically toil 60 hours a week in front of their machines, often without minimum wage or overtime pay. ... She is young and, often, missing the chance for an education because she must work long hours to support a family. ... Workers in V...
First, it is not uncommon for a travel agent to work beyond the scheduled forty-hour workday to complete the tasks of a heavy business day. ... The company pays one and a half times their regular hourly rate of pay when an agent works more than their scheduled hours per week. Also, for those individual days when an agent works more than ten hours per day, they are entitled to overtime dinner pay. ...
., when women and men seem to share the privilege of being exploited equally as a labour force working equal hours for equal pay in equal conditions (Haug, 1998). Haug (1998) cites research from East Germany which allows her to calculate that women do 4 hours and 41 minutes of domestic labour against men's 2 hours 38 minutes. Men split their extra two hours between leisure and paid employment. She asks if it is a realistic possibility that patriarchy could be so completely and comprehensively asserted in as little as tow hours a day. ... In Haug's case, patriarchy is not being ass...
The crush in Mumbai's rush-hour trains is so bad that increasingly, it seems, those who can afford to do so would rather travel by car. (BBC News, 2013 ) Furthermore, the unchanging congested outlook of the roads means that people who choose to commute by buses are packed in the confinements of a public bus tugging at a speed of 7.6km/h during peak hours ( S. ... As both the Mumbai metro and suburban railway stations are located close together, this strategy has actually backfired and led to more congestion as more people have begun congregating in that area during peak hours in the morni...
I awoke up and since it was a Saturday, I didn't had school, so I ate breakfast relaxed, I turned on the television and started playing my video game, hours passed and nothing of my parents arrive, my anxiety grew, did not even see clearly the image that skirt from that small and old TV,quite old with the ones we have today. ... We arrived early to the hospital and waited for almost one hour to get my mother in preparation to be called to a room. ... We stayed there for almost an hour, having conversations about my brother that would be called Luigi, something that we had already set when...
The code also bars the use of forced or child labour or forcing employees to work more than 60 hours a week" (Sweatshop Campaign Heats Up (1999)). ... "Nguyen said the number of hours worked a week had been reduced to 45, from 65. ... Nike's Code of Conduct states: "Hours of work / overtime: The manufacturer complles with legally mandated work hours; uses overtime only when each employee is fully compensated according to the local law; informs each employee at the time of hiring of mandatory overtime is a condition of employment; and on a regularly scheduled basis, provides one day off ...
Promotions such as Happy Hours' further enhance the risk of violence or disorder. ... She suggests that the avoidance of happy hours and the provision of meals will also reduce incidents. ... The burden that alcohol-related violence places on staff was highlighted in November 2000 when a summit was held by health professionals complaining at the lack of a National Alcohol Strategy who highlighted:- • Four out of five attendances at Accident & Emergency departments during peak hours are alcohol-related. ... The Governments white paper Time For Reform' has suggested that cha...
Krapfl and Gray (2008) conducted a literature review on past studies which have overall indicated that a turning regime of every two hours is no more effective in reducing pressure ulcers than repositioning every four hours. ... The study findings outline that pressure ulcers were increased when patients were frequently repositioned every two hours compared with those repositioned less frequently (Rich et al., 2011). ... Therefore evidence suggests that frequency of repositioning can be extended from the traditional two hours when there is a support surface in use (EPUAP & NPUAP, 2009). ... In...
Within 24 hours of infection, the norovirus' have rewired the digestive system and reprogrammed it to eject all matter in the digestive system, especially in the stomach and colon (Gilpin, 2004). ... Norovirus infection cannot be entirely prevented, however, there are measures that can be taken to minimise the impact of an outbreak in nursing homes, these include: Frequent hand washing around people who are infected is a crucial measure to prevent the spread of the virus; Implementing basic hygiene and food handling measures; and isolation of those infected for 48 hours after their sympto...
Their average weekly hours were 34 (Doheny, 2015), compared to the 71% of mothers whose children do not have ASD and worked 35 or more hours a week (Doheny, 2015). As for the fathers, the results showed that 91% of the fathers of children with ASD were employed, and worked on average 46 hours (Doheny, 2015), compared to the 95% of the fathers of children who did not have ASD, and worked an average of 44 hours a week (Doheny, 2015). In the bigger scheme of things, a few hours can make all the difference. ...
Whether a person is big or small, young or old, athletic or not, the performance level of the human body plays a crucial role in the quality of life that a person can achieve. Physical therapists are provided with the opportunity to actually make a positive difference in the quality of people's li...
These children spend an average of ten hours a week in activities like music classes, sporting activities, play and musical activities outside the home, Sunday School and church organized groups, Scouts and volunteering from preschool to retirement homes (Meighan 2). ... Public schooled children spend an average of six to seven hours a day in a structured classroom, socializing with peers, whereas home schooled children spend and average of four to five hours in their structured school day. ... As well as participating in sports and recreational activities, these students are also involved ...
In 2007, a detailed breakout of average hours and or minutes spent weekly on leisure activities by 6 to 17 year olds shows that television ranked the highest at 14:36 hours followed by play time at 8:05 minutes followed by reading with only 1:17 hours spent (NEA, 2004). ... In short, the Federal District Court found in favor of Metallica and ultimately Napster was shut down within 72 hours. ...
They also wanted laws controlling work conditions and hours, and they desired labor unions to be recognized. ... Historians argue that the intense work hours and the unregulated conditions were healthy because it provided a backbone for America. ... Many worked seven days a week, twelve hours each day, some enduring 24 straight hours of intense labor every other Sunday on what was known as the "long turn". ...
A person who sleeps less than 7.5 hours each day has a greater chance of developing heart disease, investigators from Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan, reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine. ... Health authorities say that children aged five or less who are able to walk unassisted should be physically active for no less than three hours each day, however, these hours should be spread out. Kids' ages 5 to 18 should do at best one hour of aerobic activity day-to-day and their activities should consist of a range of balances, from the correspondent of speed-walking to running...
Another work of Marcel Duchamp that represents his odd concepts and ideals is 'To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour' The title of this work, which Duchamp said he "intended to sound like an eye doctors prescription," tells the viewer exactly how to look at it. But peering through the convex lens embedded in the work's glass "for almost an hour" would have a hallucinatory effect, the view being dwarfed, flipped, and otherwise distorted. ... Looking through the convex lens "for almost an hour" is supposed to have a hal...
