annualised hours

annualised hours

An arrangement under which the number of hours to be worked by a particular employee in the UK is agreed upon for the entire year, which differs from the conventional arrangement in which the number of hours worked is defined on a weekly or monthly basis.
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Flexible working, such as annualised hours, is dramatically changing the needs for temporary workers, as are other developments such as the use of older staff to inject knowledge into a business.
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All its employees work on an annualised hours basis.
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She also made an important contribution to the company's business strategy and helped to implement new working practices, including annualised hours contracts.
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Smarter working can take many forms - flexible working, part-time working or job share, annualised hours and career breaks, or remote working - incorporating home working, mobile working, teleworking or hot-desking.
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Annualised hours contracts and term time working each accounted for around 5% of employees.
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Already there are moves, notably in distribution and manufacturing, towards annualised hours with staff contracted for a total number of hours each year.
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Earlier this month, Patricia Hewitt, the Trade Secretary, showed that nearly one million parents had requested a change in their working hours, with options such as annualised hours and term-time working put on the table.
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Among those with no caring responsibilities, 21 per cent would like annualised hours - working a certain amount of hours each year but being able to vary the week worked throughout the year - 34 per cent would like flexitime and the same again would like to work compressed hours - doing, for example, a full-time job in four days rather than five.
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Iarnrod Eireann has offered to introduce annualised hours based on a 48-hour week.
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I think probably the things I derive greatest satisfaction from are the annualised hours contracts at Ryton, which I was deeply involved in the negotiations for.
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Staff work annualised hours, so they spend more time in the factory during busy periods and fewer when trade is quieter.
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Liz Wall, manager of the eye outpatients clinic at the University Hospital of Wales was honoured in the team-based working patterns category for introducing an annualised hours scheme.
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