BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Hours Of Work
- the actual hours worked by an employee, often well in excess of those stated in the contract of employment and sometimes without the payment of overtime
- the hours agreed between an employer and employee for which the employee is paid
Additional Resources
- Washington Group International has achieved 4 million hours of work without an accident resulting in a lost day away from work at the U.S. Army's Pine Bluff Chemical Agent Disposal Facility
- Washington Group International has achieved 4 million hours of work without an accident resulting in a lost day away from work at the U.S. Army's Pine Bluff Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. The safety record has been achieved over a nearly two-year period. PBCDF has built the incinerator to destroy about...
- Research articles 2004-02-16
- Putting Work In Its Place. (Hours of work). (book review)
- Putting Work In Its Place, by Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley. Cornell University Press, 2002. 208 pp. $25.00 US. Most books on the subject of work focus on the increased amount of time North Americans spend on the job. Meiksins and Whalley...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- The clock strikes midnight: are you ready? Rates, productivity and personnel are expected to be dramatically affected.(Hours of Service)
- With new federal regulations limiting truck drivers to 14 hours of work per day, everyone in the food and consumer packaged goods supply chain will be watching the amount of time that truck drivers have to wait at loading docks. "Where drivers...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- The HOS are at hand are you ready? Rates, productivity and personnel expected to be dramatically affected.(hours of service)(Cover Story)
- With new federal regulations limiting truck drivers to 14 hours of work per day, everyone in the food and consumer packaged goods supply chain will be watching the amount of time that truck drivers have to wait at loading docks. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- Denmark ranked fourth in terms of work hours in Europe - report
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-7 July 2004-Denmark ranked fourth in terms of work hours in Europe - reportC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com According to new figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD, the typical Danish wage earner works 1,410 hours per year. Only the Swedes, Norwegians and...
- Research articles 2004-07-07
- What to Eat Now ... for Every Work Situation
- Put the right fuel in your body for each of these on-the-job scenarios — whether you're staying late at the office or dealing with jet lag. Here’s what to eat when confronted by these all-too-common work situations. Situation: It’s 8:17 a.m.,...
- Articles 2009-06-30
- Hours Measures For Productivity Measurement And National Accounting
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS collects data on labor hours in both household and establishment business surveys. These data are of interest for a variety of reasons, including comparing the situation of workers over time or in different countries. In addition, hours data are used together with measures of...
- White papers 2004-09-14
- NDC will work with the TV Guide Channel to guide viewers through 1,200-plus hours of Olympics coverage from Athens this summer.(Fully Programmable)(Brief Article)
- NDC will work with the TV GUIDE CHANNEL to guide viewers through 1,200-plus hours of Olympics coverage from Athens this summer. Olympics events will run on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, BRAVO and ... NDC will work with the TV GUIDE CHANNEL to guide viewers through ...
- Research articles 2004-04-05
- No slackers in executive suites. (work hours of the majority of exectives)(Brief Article)
- 00-00-0000 Long hours are expected for those at the top, and a recent survey shows executive workdays are growing even longer. When asked if they are working more or fewer hours than they did five years ago, 76% of executives from the largest U.S. companies...
- Research articles 1998-03-16
- As Summer Nears and Teens Take First Job, American Society of Safety Engineers Urge Them to Be Aware of Work Hazards
- DES PLAINES, Ill., May 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As teens contemplate taking a summer job they should be aware of the fact that although most of them may work fewer hours and hold less dangerous jobs than adults, teenagers have a high rate of work- related injDES PLAINES, Ill., May...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Hours at work: a new base for BLS productivity statistics - Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Using data from a recently established survey, BLS defines a new measure of labor input; hours at work replace hours paid in statistics on productivity
- Research articles 1990-02-01
- BASF's site exceeds one million hours of safe operation.(news)
- BASF's Coatings Technical Support Center in Whitehouse, Ohio recently marked more than one million hours of operation without a recordable injury or work-related illness. Rainer Blair, group vice president for BASF's coating businesses in North Ame BASF's Coatings Technical Support Center in Whitehouse, Ohio...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- USA: BGE HOME PRODUCTS AND SERVICES AWARDED CONTRACT FOR AROUND 800,000 MEGAWATT-HOURS OF ELECTRICITY FOR U.S. ARMY.(Brief Article)
- DoD BGE Home Products and Services Inc., Columbia, Md., has been awarded a $37,753,744 firm-fixed-price contract for 842,804 megawatt-hours of electricity for the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and federal installations. Work will also be performed at Aberde DoD BGE Home Products and Services Inc., Columbia, Md.,...
- Research articles 2002-05-08
- USA: PEPCO ENERGY SERVICES, AWARDED CONTRACT FOR OVER A MILLION MEGAWATT-HOURS OF ELECTRICITY FOR U.S. ARMY.(from Defense Energy Support Center)(Brief Article)
- DoD PEPCO Energy Services, Washington, D.C., is being awarded a $64,075,620 firm-fixed-price contract for 1,511,109 megawatt-hours of electricity for the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and federal installations. Work will also be performed at Aberdeen Provin DoD PEPCO Energy Services, Washington, D.C., is being awarded a ...
- Research articles 2002-05-08
- Change drivers' hours-of-service rules to reflect cumulative rather than consecutive hours of time.(Management: an executive summary of industry news)
- That's the recommendation the Truckload Carriers Association and other petitioners such as Wal-Mart Stores are making to the U.S. Department of Transportation DOT in response to new rules setting time limits for truck drivers. Under DOT's current hours-of-service rules, once a driver starts a work day,...
- Research articles 2003-08-01
- Getting Tougher to Differentiate Work Time from Personal Time
- The article emphasizes on how work and home responsibilities are increasingly overlapping, meshing together and sometimes simply indiscernible, according to a recent report. People are having a hard time keeping work from cutting into their personal time and vice versa. They're working overtime and taking work home with them in...
- White papers 2001-02-27
- Work-life Balancing Act
- Is it worth introducing a work-life balance policy into your organisation? Absolutely! Such a policy can help an organisation retain staff, attract new staff, reduce absenteeism and potentially increase morale and productivity. For the employees, it can mean less stress/burnout, improved relationships family and personal and increased...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Marketers advised to follow hours-of-service rules.(Las Vegas)
- Propane marketers should abide by the new hours-of-service rules that went into effect Jan. 4, 2004, while Congress sorts out what the National Propane Gas Association calls a contentious highway reauthorization bill. The clarification arose after Congress voted in late September to ...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Hours-of-Service Revision Slows FMCSA
- The Federal Motor Garner Safety Administrations work to revise the embattled driver hours-of-service rules has delayed other parts of the agency s regulatory agenda, a Department of Transportation report and an agency spokesman said.DOT's "Significant Rulemakings Report" said FMCSA had 21 rules currently on its agenda, including some that have...
- Research articles 2004-12-20
- Work-Consumption Preferences, Cyclical Driving Forces, And Unemployment Volatility
- The author develops a model that accounts for the movements of unemployment in the U.S. over the past few years. The model pays close attention to evidence about preferences for work and consumption. It attributes bilateral efficiency to employment relations, with respect to the formation and continuation of matches and...
- White papers 2006-08-22
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