Translation of "Vertragliche arbeitszeit" in English

This calls for flexibility on the part of the firms and of workers with regard notably to work organisation, working time, contractual arrangements and national or geographical mobility.

Employed eguivalent, obtained by dividing hours paid by average contractual working time.

Definition: Several different precise definitions of working hours can be derived from the survey data, but all are essentially paid contracted hours of work plus overtime hours where relevant.

Free shifts: Since contractual paid hours are reported, any paid idle time would be included, but is not differentiated by the survey.

In addition to monitoring company practices, previous work on the legal and contractual aspects of working time was updated and the revised edition of the copublication with Peeters of Leuven, Legal and Contractual Limitations to Working Time in the EU, was launched in conjunction with an international seminar.

Further research was conducted by two networks of experts established by the Foundation to investigate the organization of working time, and legislation and agreements governing working time.

In the broadcasting sector in Italy, shiftworkers have a contractual working time of 35 hours per week in state companies, and of 38.5 in private ones.

Two thirds of the interviewed workers had a contractually agreed working week of between 35­40 hours, about one quarter of the workers held a contract specifying less than 35 hours, and almost 10 % had contracted for more than 40 working hours per week.

Other activities are designed more generally to cover the theme of time, focussing attention on the division of working time/leisure time.

Based on information provided by workers about their monthly wages and work hours within the long-term study Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the authors of this report calculated that in 2016, 1.8 million people who were eligible for the minimum wage were actually earning less than 8.50 euros gross per hour –the minimum wage at the time – based on their contractual work hours.

This overtime must not have any impact which brings the length of work by the part-time wageearner up to the level of the legal or collectively agreed length of work: the total length of weekly work (contractual work plus overtime) must remain below 39 hours or the collectively agreed amount.

Overtime is present when the hours worked exceed those agreed in the contract.

Any unpaid holiday would not be reported as part of the normal contractual hours of work.

Part-time contracts are less than 80 percent of legal or contractual working hours.

In Greece there is a distinction between statutory working hours and contractual working hours.

Part-time employees are included on a prorated basis in line with their contractual working hours.

The contractually agreed working hours of our employees do not exceed 48 hours a week in any country.

For a part-time employee, the hours contractually worked should be expressed as a percentage of the number of normal hours worked by a full-time employee in the local unit (in an job equivalent to that of the part-time employee).

The legislative action relative to contracts exchanging work time for training activity and to the regulation of coordinated and continuing cooperation schemes proceeded.

In particular, the promising "EU – US Aviation Forum on Liberalisation and Labor: past, present and future" held in Washington DC in December 2008 should be further elaborated and its outcome taken into account as much as possible in areas such as: collective agreements, individual rights as regards contracts, working time, vocational training, social benefits and trade union representation.

This was the result of the large share of employment in the more stable service sector, the possibility of reducing working hours rather than jobs thanks to less rigid contracts and some labour hoarding as the downturn was expected to be mild.

This is, in particular, needed in such fields as collective redundancies and protection of workers interests in the event of an insolvency of the employer, in the case of a transfer of an undertaking, information of employees about the working conditions applicable to the work contracts and working time.

The agreement regulates working hours, appointment procedures, dismissals and industrial accidents as well as wage policies. It is, therefore, not concerned directly with the introduction of new technology.

Where the employer converts such an existing contract into one involving full working hours, he obtains a fifty percent reduction in his social insurance contributions for the period during which the "replacement employment contract" applied.

The contract sets out in detail the breakdown of time to be spent on teaching and on other activities such as preparation of lessons and correction of pupils' work, meetings with parents, inservice training, staff meetings and discussion with pupils.

In cases of reorganisation, there is the possibility of reducing working hours by a maximum of 30% of contractual working hours (not more than 12 hours per week) in order to avoid reduction of personnel.