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  2. Hours of service - Wikipedia

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    The 16-hour rule may be invoked once per 34 hour reset, if the 5 day pattern has been established. The driver must be relieved from work after the 16th hour. Drivers for oilfield operations in the petroleum industry, groundwater drilling operations, construction materials, and utility service vehicles are permitted to take a 24-hour restart.

  3. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration - Wikipedia

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    The final rule required truck drivers who use the "34-hour restart" provision to maximize their weekly work hours to limit the restart to once a week and to include in the restart period at least two nights off duty from 1:00 to 5:00 a.m., when one's 24-hour body clock supposedly needs and benefits from sleep the most.

  4. Sick leave in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Companies with more than 18 employees must provide up to 40 hours of paid sick leave to full-time, part-time, and temporary employees. Workers earn one hour off for every 34 hours worked, which can be used after 90 days for full-time employees, 180 days for part-time employees, and 150 days for seasonal employees. South Carolina

  5. 24 Hours of Le Mans - Wikipedia

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    The 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 24 Heures du Mans) is an endurance-focused sports car race held annually near the town of Le Mans, France. It is widely considered to be one of the world's most prestigious races, and is one of the races—along with the Monaco Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500—that form the Triple Crown of Motorsport, and is also one of the races alongside the 24 Hours of ...

  6. Medical resident work hours - Wikipedia

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    As per the rules of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in the United States of America, residents are allowed to work a maximum of 80 hours a week averaged over a 4-week period. Residents work 40–80 hours a week depending on specialty and rotation within the specialty, [citation needed] with residents occasionally ...

  7. 35-hour workweek - Wikipedia

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    35-hour workweek. The 35-hour workweek is a labour reform policy adopted in France in February 2000, under Prime Minister Lionel Jospin 's Plural Left government. Promoted by Minister of Labour Martine Aubry, it was adopted in two phases: the Aubry 1 law in June 1998 and the Aubry 2 law in January 2000. The previous legal working week was 39 ...

  8. Minimum wage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 In 1933, the Roosevelt administration during the New Deal made the first attempt at establishing a national minimum wage regiment with the National Industrial Recovery Act, which set minimum wage and maximum hours on an industry and regional basis. The Supreme Court, however, in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935) ruled the act unconstitutional ...

  9. Charles Czeisler - Wikipedia

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    Czeisler investigates how the physiological system works to reset the human central circadian pacemaker, located in the hypothalamus and called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Among his most salient contributions to this research area are a pair of seminal Science original research articles published in 1986 and 1989.