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Personally, I think doing away with night shift jobs, would be the best option. It not only has detrimental effects on most peoples physical bodies, but it also throws your mental abilities into the gutter as well.
Nurses? Doctors? Firefighters? Policemen? I've worked night shift in retail, and in health care, you're right about how it can ********* up, but some of these are needed because emergencies don't restrict themselves to business hours.
However most other things there is no need for 24/7.
I love this country because we get to choose what we want to do for a living, and how often we want to do it. Nobody forces anyone to do anything they don't want (yet). Work as often or as little as you want. Government getting involved won't fix anything. It never does.
I love this country because we get to choose what we want to do for a living, and how often we want to do it. Nobody forces anyone to do anything they don't want (yet). Work as often or as little as you want. Government getting involved won't fix anything. It never does.
The only reason people have the option of a 40 hour work week to reach full time status is due to gov't intervention/unions.
Personally, I think doing away with night shift jobs, would be the best option. It not only has detrimental effects on most peoples physical bodies, but it also throws your mental abilities into the gutter as well.
For some jobs, like mine, I feel that working 40 hours a week is needed. However, I think that the best way for many of those 40 hour a week jobs to happen, is to allow the employee to work that 40 hours, whenever they want.
So, if you want to work, non stop for 3 days (including sleep) and not work the other 4 days of the week, that'd be fine. If you'd rather work 6 hours a day, for 7 days a week, then that would be fine to.
The fact is, biologically, we are not all at our best at 8 or 9 in the mourning. And others are best at 7 in the evening.
What about those jobs that still need to operate during the night? Emergency, police, fire, gas station attendants, hotel workers, nuclear techs, hospitals?
Another "feel good" proposal by leftists! How absolutely absurd!
I work to provide for myself and for my family. I work as long, and as hard, as is necessary to get the job done. If it can be done in 40 - fine. 60 - Great. 120 - whatever it takes.
The only reason people have the option of a 40 hour work week to reach full time status is due to gov't intervention/unions.
Yes. Because people never made money, had full time jobs, started successful businesses and were generally miserable human beings just working to pass the time between life and death before unions were formed and government started sticking their hands into everything.
Brilliant statement.
The ONLY reason this country provides us the opportunities that it does is because we have the freedoms to do what we please. For now. I'm sure you'd rather the government and unions run everything, but the majority of us see what unions have bastardized themselves into and prefer that the government goes and re-reads the Constitution to see what their job truly is.
Yes. Because people never made money, had full time jobs, started successful businesses and were generally miserable human beings just working to pass the time between life and death before unions were formed and government started sticking their hands into everything.
Unions are what got you this 40 hour work week in the first place. Also, weekends.
He wants his full time benefits without working for them. Thats the problem.
who proclaimed that 40 hours is "full time" and required in order to get benefits? Why does that have to be the magic number? It's an arbitrary number.
who proclaimed that 40 hours is "full time" and required in order to get benefits? Why does that have to be the magic number? It's an arbitrary number.
Grew out of the New Deal measures of FDR to combat the Great Depression. As did overtime laws. The idea was that employers would hire new workers if the current ones were limited to 40 hours, thereby lowering the massive unemployment. Child labor restrictions were also a part of the plan.
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