How many hours we suppose to work per week?

[Ysnympha]

Hi anyone know whether how many hours we suppose to work per week?? 44hours etc... and five days week.... Is this 44 hours inc lunch and tea break??? My lunch is 45mins and tea break 10mins in the morning ang 10mins at 3pm....

I work 9.5hours daily and as for fri i need to work 9.45mins.... Is this normal or my company is eating me????

Pls advise!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks

[Qpik]

http://www.mom.gov.sg/InformationForEmploy...ymentRights.htm

 

get yr questions answered at the above webbie...

 

cos it varies from industry to industry

[Karebu]

doesnt include your break..

[Ldawn88]

think there is no hard and fast rule to the number of hours abeit laws governing it

 

I believe more and more people are working longer hours than the stipulated hours, due to our 'restructure' economy and adviced by our nanny govbermen that we should not be too choosy about the jobs and the hours. .

[Dfx16]

I'm working for a MMC

Mine company practice 44hrs per week (Break time excluded)

But most of the time or actually at all time we clocked more than 56hrs per week

We dont get overtime pay as we are executives

 

So by looking at your timing

It seem very healthy to me

So what's there of who eating who

 

It's your commitment to your job and requirement

[Gary84]

avg. 45hrs a week inclusive of lunch and tea breaks...

[Tploh]

We should work till we complete the job that brings sufficient $$$ to live.

 

E.g. 5 hrs or 50 hrs, whichever till you can make the mark.

[Bhaal]

Unless you are earning less than $1600 per month, you are no covered by law on this issue. It is up to the company to work out the terms and for you to agree when you took up the job.

[Exetor]

Such this hard to say one la.. 44Hrs mostly exclusive of lunch, breaks and all.. And to be frank, people whu are so fussy in working time, are harder to get thru the ranks.. Its part of performance mah..

[Vit4wd]

In Singapore, we work to live, to support the govt and their fat pay cheques.

[Dwoon]

A few hours extra and you're complaining? If your pay is hourly rated and you're not paid overtime.... then ok, there's ground for greviences. But if you're an executive/exempt staff..... no hard & fast rule. Basically, the hours chalked up is the amount required to finish the job, OT pay or not is irrespective. 80 -90 hour weeks w/o OT pay, is not uncommon in my field.

[Pisces69]

Hi anyone know whether how many hours we suppose to work per week?? 44hours etc... and five days week.... Is this 44 hours inc lunch and tea break??? My lunch is 45mins and tea break 10mins in the morning ang 10mins at 3pm....

I work 9.5hours daily and as for fri i need to work 9.45mins.... Is this normal or my company is eating me????

Pls advise!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks

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I think sud b abt 48 hours per week BUT WHO IS SO LUCKY TO WORK SUCH SHORT HOURS ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!

 

Most pple have been "upgraded" to excuetive level & above so campanies can "abuse" u more

 

Paid overtime? They now tell you, U r lucky to have a job. WTF we have become slaves to the employers now.

 

I want to retire early. Had enough of so much crap coming from employers & gharmen.

[Nullbig]

I work seven days a week and on avg of 12-15 hours a day.....for an MNC as an executive....no limit on lunch time and time to go to office...sometimes, if tired, can knock off at 12 pm..

 

But when work needs to be done, it can be 24hrs for consecutive days....

 

...Industry?? Power Gen...

[Ysnympha]

Thank you everybody.....

[Huixuan]

Well, i must be the luckily one.

 

my working hours is 9am to 520pm... inclusive 50 mins of lunch break.

each day is 7.5 hours.

1 week is 37.5 hours.

and it is 5-days work week.

 

there is not much of OT to do.. unless u wan to stay behind to finish ur own work.

 

*added*

 

if i didnt remember wrongly, if u r working in services industry.. employer can required you to work 56 hours per week.

 

correct me if i am wrong...

Edited June 17, 2006 by Huixuan

[Pisces69]

Yes. Now certain industry can work long long hours but after that u must have at least 8 hours rest.

 

Now labour laws very complicated. Very hard to keep track liow.

 

This one also got no transparency anymore. Make pple confused on what can or cannot?

 

Anyway, all I know is now working houre r longer.

 

Long ago I work for american co. Only 33 hrs a week. Damm shiok. Start at 745am go home 4.14 pm. 5 day week. I think they follow US standards.

 

Now where to find?

[Huixuan]

mine is a jap co.

 

prehaps u can read up the mom webbie and find out more?

 

for certain industry, if u work long long hours... u must have at least 12 hours of rest instead of 8 hours.

 

i read up the webbie last night onli.

 

hopefully, i still rem the facts correctly..at this time of reply.

[Pisces69]

Ah so u interested to work in HR or u wanna resign & check 1st.