How many hours do you work a day?

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Following Dan Perry's worrying thread. One of the reasons why I came to work to France was the 35 hours week, despite the high taxes in comparison to Britain, which was at the time the obvious choice.

I usually work from 8.30 to 18.00 stopping one hour for lunch. We have one day off work per month to achieve the 35 hours thingie

― Arantxa, Thursday, 29 August 2002 06:08 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, Arantxa!

I work in France, too. My company is SLACK! No one gets anything done because they're all on coffee/cigarette break 75% of the time. I'm just the token foreign student (a goodwill offering from my government) so I do fuck-all. My repeated requests for work to do have been ignored so now I fool around all day, openly & without shame. We're on flex-time so people come and go as they please. I start around 9 am and leave at 4. Lunch is 45 min but it generally stretches to an hour plus an extra half hour of post-lunch socializing. Are all French companies like this?

― Miss Laura, Thursday, 29 August 2002 06:59 (twenty-four years ago)

I work 6 and a half hours a day (27 hours a week). The reason I have such short hours is that, I went back to my old job to cover for sick leave, and there was no way I was going to do it full time. But, now 10 months later I'm stuck here...but I'm supposed to be doing a new job soon (hopefully for more money and 35 hours full time = public sector).

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 29 August 2002 07:03 (twenty-four years ago)

none, none at all, worse luck

― chris (chris), Thursday, 29 August 2002 08:09 (twenty-four years ago)

from 5 to 8 to 12 depending on all sorts of factors. Today 8 and a half, 3.30-midnight.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 29 August 2002 08:11 (twenty-four years ago)

7.5 goes down on my timesheet perday, sometimes it's a little more, sometimes a little less. Public sector? Why yesh...

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 29 August 2002 08:59 (twenty-four years ago)

eight too many

― kiwi, Thursday, 29 August 2002 09:22 (twenty-four years ago)

strictly eight hours a day since the company got taken over and moved to waterloo and then ignored.

which sounds ok until you consider the holidays. so far this year i've taken one day off (went to london zoo, april 24th) out of my entitlement of 27 (22 plus 5 from last year). every time i think about taking time off we are either too busy or are being threatened by redundancy (3 times this year). oh um.

andy

― koogs, Thursday, 29 August 2002 10:38 (twenty-four years ago)

The "pause cafes" are not that obvious here, but the use of RTT days (the compensating days for working more than 35 hours a week) is more of an abuse. I am sure that lots of people take more than they are allowed to. And people who have worked more than a year have 2 days a month (plus 5 weeks holidays)!

― Arantxa, Thursday, 29 August 2002 10:56 (twenty-four years ago)

As much as can be done within eight hours. The rest of the time is spent creatively.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 August 2002 13:31 (twenty-four years ago)

A part-timer at 5 hours per day (when I took this job I intended to use the other hours in the week working freelance for a local literature charity and writing HAHAHA as if). I am quite poor now.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 August 2002 14:15 (twenty-four years ago)

I work 7.5 hours a day.

― DeRayMi, Thursday, 29 August 2002 16:12 (twenty-four years ago)

A 35 hour week, in which I can be reasonably flexible. In fact I work more or less 9-5 with an hour for lunch. It's not the kind of job where overtime is paid, so I virtually never do any.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 29 August 2002 17:58 (twenty-four years ago)

9-5 with an hour for lunch. Except this week I took a day off so I'm working 9-6 or 7 the other days to try to make up my share of the work. Oh, and in theory I could do overtime on Saturdays, but I'm always too busy.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 29 August 2002 18:15 (twenty-four years ago)

It had averaged out to between 40-50 hours a week (8-9 hours/day, including lunch). So far this week I'm up to... 44, which isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be (13-hour days = dud, though).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 August 2002 20:07 (twenty-four years ago)

8. Not on the weekends. Except on special occasions, like field trips in which case I work more and get time in lieu. I also get a special allowance for hours spent in helicopters, etc.

― isadora, Thursday, 29 August 2002 21:15 (twenty-four years ago)

Close enough to 8.. But 6 would be ideal

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 29 August 2002 22:51 (twenty-four years ago)

Please explain "time spent in helicopters"!

― Miss Laura, Friday, 30 August 2002 05:48 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Reviving because of the illegal methods US companies use to rip off employees working hours

Experts on compensation say that the illegal doctoring of hourly employees' time records is far more prevalent than most Americans believe. The practice, commonly called shaving time, is easily done and hard to detect - a simple matter of computer keystrokes - and has spurred a growing number of lawsuits and settlements against a wide range of businesses.

Workers have sued Family Dollar and Pep Boys, the auto parts and repair chain, accusing managers of deleting hours. A jury found that Taco Bell managers in Oregon had routinely erased workers' time. More than a dozen former Wal-Mart employees said in interviews and depositions that managers had altered time records to shortchange employees. The Department of Labor recently reached two back-pay settlements with Kinko's photocopy centers, totaling $56,600, after finding that managers in Ithaca, N.Y., and Hyannis, Mass., had erased time for 13 employees.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

35 hours per week, on flexi. I usually work 8.40am to 5pm with an hour for lunch and use the extra time to leave at 4pm on Fridays. It's such a difference from when I worked for the big, American telecoms company in London where officially I was on 40 hours per week but it was actually more like 50 or even 60 sometimes.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

45 hours a week, plus any hours necessary to do my job/go to screenings etc. I also read about 5 scripts a week in my free time. Overtime as a concept doesn't exist in this field.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

37.5 hours a week. Ususally 9 to 5:30 with an hour for lunch. Sometimes earlier when I want to leave early or get something done in the morning.

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a trick question if ever there was one.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

-5-1.5

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

37.5 hours a week... 8:30-5 with an hour for lunch. A few days a week, though, I am too busy to leave the office for lunch, and usually two days a week I work until 5:30. So I guess it evens out to about 40. Maybe I'm a selfish ho, but because I don't get paid for overtime, as soon as it hits 5 I am squirming to get outta there.

― mandee, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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