Full-time job
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A full-time job is employment in which workers work a minimum number of hours defined as such by their employer.
Overview
Full-time employment often comes with
flexible workers, such as annual leave, sick leave, and health insurance. Part-time jobs are mistakenly thought by some to not be careers. However, legislation exists to stop employers from discriminating against part-time workers so this should not be a factor when making decisions on career advancement. They generally pay more than part-time
jobs per hour, and this is similarly discriminatory if the pay decision is based on part-time status as a primary factor. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not define full-time employment or part-time employment. This is a matter generally to be determined by the employer (US Department of Labor). The definition by the employer can vary and is generally published in a company's Employee Handbook. Companies commonly require from 32 to 40 hours per week to be defined as full-time and therefore eligible for benefits.
Full-time status varies between company and is often based on the
retail, but are still full-time if the required number of hours is reached. There are some situations where a person who needs full-time work is dropped to part-time, which is sometimes a form of constructive dismissal to avoid paying unemployment benefits to a laid-off
worker.
Definitions by country
Full-time
workweeks
:
Australia: approximately 38 hours[1]
Belgium: 38 hours
Brazil: 40–44 hours[citation needed]
Chile: 45 hours[citation needed]
Canada: 37.5 hours - 40.0 hours
Denmark: 37 hours
France: 35 hours (government-mandated)[2]
Germany: 35–40 hours
Iceland: 40 hours
India: 48 hours (as per the Factories Act 1948, a person cannot work for more than 48 hours in a week)
Taiwan: 40 hours[3]
Israel: 43 hours
Italy: 40 hours
Netherlands: 35–40 hours[4]
Norway: 40 hours[5] (often regulated to 37.5 excl. lunch break)
Poland: 40 hours
Russia: 40 hours
Sweden: 40 hours (not formally defined)[6]
Turkey: 45 hours (not formally defined)[7]
United Kingdom: 35 hours (not formally defined),[8] 37.5 hours, or 40 hours contracts are all commonplace.
Affordable Care Act.[9][10][11][12] "The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not define full-time employment or part-time employment. This is a matter generally to be determined by the employer."[13] The FLSA does, however, define the eight-hour day and thus sets the maximum workweek at 40 hours,[14] but provides that employees working beyond 40 hours a week receive additional overtime bonus salaries.[15] However, in practice, only 42% of employees work 40-hour weeks. The average workweek for full-time employees is 47 hours.[16]Increasingly, employers are offering compressed work schedules to employees. Some government and corporate employees now work a 9/80 work schedule (80 hours over 9 days during a two-week period)—commonly 9-hour days Monday to Thursday, 8 hours on one Friday, and off the following Friday.
A person working more than full-time is working overtime, and may be entitled to extra per-hour wages (but not salary).[17]
Academic usage
“Full-time” can also be used in reference to a
credit hours
. This translates to 12 "hours" (often of 50 minutes instead of 60 minutes each) in class per week. "Lab hours" often count for less, only as one-half or one-third of a credit hour.
International students must maintain full-time status for
student organizations only if they are full-time. The Department of Labor has a full-time student program which allows employers to pay no less than 85% of the minimum wage to the student/employee.[19]
See also
Look up full-time job in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
References
- ^ "Full-time employees - Casual, part-time & full-time". Fair Work Ombudsman, Australian Government. Archived from the original on 18 March 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ^ "Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi, de la Formation professionnelle et du Dialogue social". Archived from the original on 2005-04-17.
- ^ "Two days off per week, maximum 40 working hours beginning 2016 - the China Post". Archived from the original on 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
- ^ "More two-income couples with one full-time job and one large part-time job". CBS - Statistics Netherlands. Archived from the original on 5 August 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
- ^ nyinorge.no (13 November 2009). "Working hours". www.nyinorge.no. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Lag 24 SE – Heltid, deltid samt timanställning". Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
- ^ "Work-life balance".
- ^ "Part-time workers' rights". Archived from the original on 2013-01-17.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-09-05. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "ObamaCare Employer Mandate". Obamacare Facts. Archived from the original on 2015-08-14.
- ^ "Full-Time Employee". HealthCare.gov. Archived from the original on 2015-08-19.
- ^ "Questions and Answers on Employer Shared Responsibility Provisions Under the Affordable Care Act". Archived from the original on 2017-02-09.
- ^ "Fulltime Employment - United States Department of Labor". Archived from the original on 2012-09-20.
- ^ Jonathan Grossman (June 1978). "Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage". Monthly Labor Review. US Department of Labor. Archived from the original on 15 August 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "National Fair Labor Standards Act". Chron. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
- ^ "Average full-time workweek is 47 hours, Gallup says". LA Times. 2014-08-29. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
- ^ "Govt Jobs in Bangladesh". Teletalk Bangladesh. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
- ^ "Student Visas". United States Department of State. Bureau of Consular Affairs. Archived from the original on 1 April 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- ^ "Full-Time Student Program". United States Department of Labor. Washington, D.C.
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