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Recent Examples of double time
Workers will also receive triple time for any hours worked beyond 15 hours — up from double time in the current contract.
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Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 18 July 2024
In the same vein, employers would be required to pay double time when rest or meal periods are skipped.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
On-call workers, meanwhile, are to be paid double time on their seventh work day in a week.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2024
Workers who put in a 12-hour day would receive double time for each extra hour worked.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
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Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 18 July 2024
In the same vein, employers would be required to pay double time when rest or meal periods are skipped.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
On-call workers, meanwhile, are to be paid double time on their seventh work day in a week.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2024
Workers who put in a 12-hour day would receive double time for each extra hour worked.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for double time
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Cockburn said Saudi Arabia would need a vast number of migrant workers to deliver its World Cup ambitions in a country which has neither established a minimum wage for non-citizens nor introduced measures to prevent worker deaths.Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Sign up Other tax rises include a rise in capital gains tax from 10% to 18% for basic rate taxpayers and 20% to 24% for higher earners, as well as a national insurance hike for employers and a higher national minimum wage.Marc Shoffman, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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Hayden Tully, De La Salle water polo: The senior scored the golden goal in De La Salle’s 14-13 overtime win over Miramonte in the NCS Open Division title game.Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 18 Nov. 2024
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The move coming out of a bye week arrives after Jones led the Giants to their fifth straight loss on Nov. 10, an overtime defeat to the Carolina Panthers.Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 18 Nov. 2024
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The contract’s annual minimum wage increases are 3 percent in the first year of the contract and two percent in the second and third years, and the agreement provides time and a half pay for work assigned on a holiday.Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
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In addition to reducing the standard workweek by 20%, Sander’s Thirty-Two-Hour Workweek Act, which enjoys strong union support, would require employers to pay time and a half for workdays exceeding eight hours.Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
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Our schools need better funding, and our direct support staff deserve living wages.Emily Harvey, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2024
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Add to this a clearer-than-ever bifurcation between first jobs that pay a living wage and appear to have career pathways and jobs that have one or the other or neither.Ryan Craig, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Child care for Gray’s youngest son is $22,000 a year – nearly 20% of her family’s take-home pay and their second-largest monthly expense after rent.Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024
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At the time of the podcast’s recording, the couple was allocating 14% of their take-home pay toward retirement and other post-tax investments.Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2024
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