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We work the longest hours in Europe, yet other countries are more productive and earn more. 'The long hours disease' grips too many workplaces. |
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Brendan Barber
General Secretary TUC |
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Working overtime can damage health |
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| Research has found that people who regularly work 10- to 12-hour days increase their risk of a heart attack by two-thirds. |
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AlphaGary selects Crown Computing to supply new Time and Attendance (T&A) system |
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| Workforce Management software vendor Crown Computing has signed an agreement with AlphaGary to provide a new Time and Attendance (T&A) system. |
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NEF Call for 21-hour week |
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| The UK should make a radical move towards a 21-hour working week, breaking the standard industrial age pattern and fulfilling an age-old vision of John Maynard Keynes, the New Economics Foundation, a think-tank has reported as an answer to social divisions and environmentally damaging over-consumption. |
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Working fewer hours to counter the deep recession |
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| Employers speak of a ‘remarkable solidarity’ in job preservation by working shorter hours, while trade unions point simply to the ‘hard facts of a recession’. |
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2012 one-off bank holiday will mark Queen's Diamond Jubilee |
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| Workers will be given an extra, one-off bank holiday in 2012 to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The special bank holiday will be on Monday 4 June - the Queen's official birthday. |
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