On August 23rd, 2004 the Department of Labor revised Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime coverage rules. Under the FLSA, those who are covered receive time-and-a-half pay for all hours worked above forty hours while those who are exempt do not receive mandatory overtime pay. By altering the so-called “white-collar exemptions” to the FLSA, the Department of Labor ensured that some workers w...

Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literature that emphasises the role of firm-specific human capital and that explores problems of contract efficiency in the face of information asymmetries between the firm and the...

This study analyzes real wage cyclicality for male full-time workers within employer-employee matches in Germany over the period 1984–2004. Five different wage measures are compared: the standard hourly wage rate; hourly wage earnings including overtime and bonus pay; the effective wage, which takes into account unpaid overtime; and monthly earnings, with and without additional pay. None of the...

BACKGROUND Research on the relationship between overtime and psychological well-being, and workers' perceptions of the factors that determine overtime, has been conducted exclusively in the Western cultural context. AIMS To examine whether existing theory and evidence can be applied to a non-Western cultural setting by investigating the constructs among a sample of office workers drawn from a...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to clarify the association between long working hours and short sleep duration among Japanese workers. METHODS We selected 4,000 households from across Japan by stratified random sampling and conducted an interview survey of a total of 662 participants (372 men; 290 women) in November 2009. Logistic regression analyses were performed using "sleep duration <6 hours ...

a randomized cross sectional epidemiologic study about the occupational health problems of hairdressers was conducted in tehran in 1988. the sample selected for survey consisted of 200 women and 398 men- study findings indicated that the working hours were often irregular and overtime. evaluation of working conditions showed that the female hairdressers were more exposed to noise than male. the...

BACKGROUND Despite concerns as to whether nurses can perform reliably and effectively when working longer shifts, a pattern of two 12- to 13-hour shifts per day is becoming common in many hospitals to reduce shift to shift handovers, staffing overlap, and hence costs. OBJECTIVES To describe shift patterns of European nurses and investigate whether shift length and working beyond contracted ho...