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Cost of a basic but decent life for a family [1] [2]. A living wage is defined as the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs. [3] This is not the same as a subsistence wage, which refers to a biological minimum, or a solidarity wage, which refers to a minimum wage tracking labor productivity.
The 40-hour week movement, or eight-hour day movement, was a social movement to regulate the length of a working day. 40-hour week may also refer to: Labor law and ...
See Category:Working time; Annual leave; Effects of overtime; Flextime; Four-day workweek; Karoshi; List of countries by average annual labor hours; Overwork; Right to rest and leisure; Six-hour day; Work–life balance
Brazil has a 44-hour work week, normally 8 hours per day and 4 hours on Saturday or 8.8 hours per day. Jobs with no meal breaks or on-duty meal breaks are 6 hours per day. Public servants work 40 hours per week. Lunch breaks are one hour and are not usually counted as work. A typical work schedule is 8:00 or 9:00–12:00, 13:00–18:00.
The federal minimum wage is paid to a shrinking number of US workers – and a growing chorus of economists and employers agree it’s out of step with today’s reality.
The following list provides information relating to the minimum wages (gross) of countries in Europe. [1] [2]The calculations are based on the assumption of a 40-hour working week and a 52-week year, with the exceptions of France (35 hours), [3] Belgium (38 hours), [4] United Kingdom (38 hours), [3] Germany (38 hours), [5] Ireland (39 hours) [5] and Monaco (39 hours). [6]
The party Vänsterpartiet (the left party) is advocating a 6 hour working day without decreased pay. [17] [18] Miljöpartiet de gröna (The green party) has the goal of a 30 hour workweek. [18] Other parties advocating for 6 hour working day are: the Communist Party of Sweden [19] and the Communist Party (sweden). [20]
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