The nature of this business was a normal five-day, forty-hour workweek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Head Mr | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

I remember back when there was a forty-hour work week, and money was pretty good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The other job] Reference

That was after the NRA come in, and they cut down to make a forty-hour work week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Gladys and Glenn Hollar, February 26, 1980. Interview H-0128. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

What follows are classifications followed by median wages based on a forty-hour week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

I've got no beef with unions as such - I know where my forty-hour work week came from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq and a hard place] Reference

We should have added that all the weekly minimums shown are based on a forty-hour week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contract Rate Increases Kick in Sunday] Reference

Splitting a forty-hour week between the ward and the Red Cross offices shouldn't be a problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honorbound]

You set your own hours, of course, and you'll never find yourself putting in a forty-hour week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burglar On The Prowl]

I think one of the problems in our country is that we've virtually lost the forty-hour workweek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellen Susman: Balancing Your Life; An Interview with Ann Crittenden] Reference

A: I assume the studio's going to a forty-hour week with five hours of required, pre-paid overtime.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Disney Q & A] Reference

But frankly, Spike, I don't really care if artists work a forty-hour week or obey the Ten Commandments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skinny Legs and All]

Once back in the Amherst, Ni Morgana activated the monitors and began one of her legendary forty-hour days.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Fall]

Allen said he and Maureen put in forty-hour weeks there, organizing his defense—if it should come to that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Breath You Take] Reference

Now it's a strict forty-hour workweek and I spend so much time with my beautiful family Leah seems kind of annoyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Son Thinks He's French] Reference

The report also overestimates the income of full-time Wal-Mart employees by assuming that they work a forty-hour week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working for Wal-Mart: An Exchange] Reference

To ensure a living wage for each citizen by requiring the option of a forty-hour minimum workweek for all nonfarm employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broke] Reference

Bear in mind that the weekly salary numbers are adjusted to a forty-hour week, to avoid apples-and-oranges salary comparisons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Wage Survey] Reference

Just remember it was liberals who are responsible for such radical ideas as weekends, forty-hour work weeks, child labor laws ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Totenberg: Alito Will Move The Court “Dramatically To The Right”] Reference

Then we improved a lot of conditions and put them on a forty-hour week instead of twelve hours a day, and put them on three shifts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with George F. Dugger Sr., August 9, 1979. Interview H-0312. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

All the wage numbers are based on a forty-hour week, which is a very important distinction in comparing apples to oranges wage-wise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

"The Falkirk iron fitters, by an overwhelming majority, have opposed the forty-hour week and have agreed to a forty-four hour week.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919] Reference

You got paid vacations, forty-hour workweeks, time-and-half for overtime, health insurance, a pension, and most of all, job security.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 10] Reference

Well, they were "week to week," which meant you got your forty-hour notice on Monday morning, and you were gone at closing on Friday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Service Contracts - I] Reference

Ideas like Medicare, Social Security, forty-hour work week and unemployment insurance have helped millions achieve the American Dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andy Stern: Since Sliced Bread] Reference

That is the equivalent of 12 1 / 2 to 25 forty-hour weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [ETravelBlackboard.com] Reference

If they work 52 forty-hour weeks, their annual income adds up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

In this way the forty-hour week, rather than threatening economic growth would foster it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Totten's Weblog] Reference

Based on a forty-hour work week, that's roughly two-and-a-quarter years worth of your life.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

He also instituted the forty-hour workweek, two weeks 'vacation for employees, and a new minimum wage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liblogs News Feed] Reference

Another general strike, which wrested a forty-hour week and paid holidays from the capitalists, took place in 1936.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corrente] Reference

Based on a forty-hour week, this translates to 6 hours per employee per week that could be reclaimed for productive contribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference