It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living.
People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
I think the time has come when the American people understand that federal employees need to work an 8-hour day just like everybody else.
Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.
Official time is not fair to the government or the taxpayer and works solely to the benefit of labor unions and employees who serve as its representative or steward.
An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.
Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.