Annual hours are the total hours worked by an employee or worker in a calendar year.
Under an annualised hours contract, an employee's hours are expressed as a total number of hours to be worked during the course of the year. The hours actually worked are likely to fluctuate from week to week and month to month.
A devout Christian who lost his job after refusing to work on Sundays has lost the latest round of his legal battle with his former employer.
UK managers work 36 million hours free of charge by failing to take up holiday entitlement.
Large numbers of personal assistants (PAs) are considering working abroad, according to research.
The UK's long-hours culture is becoming endemic in the world of the white-collar worker.
Six in 10 doctors do not or did not have adequate access to affordable childcare - forcing many to put their careers on hold, according to a survey by the British Medical Association (BMA).
HR professionals need to take a reality check if they believe that drink and drug abuse are not an issue...
Civic gardeners in Carlisle are reportedly poised to go on strike after having their hours increased because grass is growing more quickly as a result of global warming.
Britons are still working longer hours than almost all European counterparts, according to a new research.
Almost a quarter of UK workers admit to working 10 or more hours of unpaid overtime per week.
The TUC’s ‘bossagram’ e-mail campaign [in which workers were encouraged to send anonymous e-mails to their bosses pointing out how...
A fuel pump manufacturer has introduced fingerprint scanning to monitor the working hours of its employees.
Teachers and lecturers work more unpaid overtime than any other occupation, according to a league table of working hours.
Working fewer hours and investing in staff are key to business success, according to a report from auditor Kingston Smith and the Cranfield School of Management.
More than 2 million people have embraced flexible working and are now working from home, according to statistics from the Office of National Statistics.
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