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Working Hours
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Pennsylvania Law Monitor
Residents’ Return to 24-Hour Shifts Rekindles Controversy Over Patient Care
On March 10, 2017, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) announced that first-year doctors will be allowed to work 24-hour shifts in hospitals starting July 1, 2017. The…
La Revue
Petit rappel sur le contingent annuel d’heures supplémentaires
Cass.soc. 1er mars 2017 n° 16-10.047 Dans un arrêt en date du 1er mars 2017, la chambre sociale de la Cour de cassation rappelle que les dispositions de l’article L.…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
Employment Standards FYI – Rest Periods
By Lisa Stam
This post is a quick primer on the subject of hours of work and rest periods for provincially regulated employees in Ontario. The Ontario Employment Standards Act (“ESA”) has several rules…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
Employment Standards FYI – Breaks
By Lisa Stam
This post is a quick primer on hours of work and eating periods. [caption id="attachment_8327" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo Credit - Lisa's Dad[/caption] The Ontario Employment Standards Act (“ESA”) requires that employees…
Labor Law Prof Blog
No More 6-Hour Days for Swedish Workers
A city in Sweden experimented with a six-hour work day for a group of nurses working in elder care. The city has decided to scrap the approach, however, citing the…
Employment Law Worldview
Major changes to Belgian Employment Law – no waffle
Belgium is the latest EU country to take a cold hard look at whether employment laws introduced in the sixties and seventies and little changed since are still meeting the…
The Right Coast
How insane work hours became a mark of American privilege
The jobs where people are most likely to work over 40 or 45 hours a week are highly-paid professional positions like lawyers, business management, engineering, and finance. Low-income service jobs…
The Legal Whiteboard
What is the impact of longer hours on lawyer satisfaction?
Every lawyer, law professor, law student, and legal commentator has an opinion on this question. Today we can test our views against actual data. This fall, Lawyer Metrics was given the…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Apple Workers Denied Class Certification in FLSA Working Time Claim on Security Checks
I often blog about what is and is not working time under the FLSA. Many class actions have been brought on these issues, with some focused on time waiting for…
Employment Law Watch
Time travelling to and from work can count as working time – UPDATED
Readers may recall our blog from June in which we reported that the Advocate-General of the European Union found that workers without a fixed or habitual place of work could…