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On-call workers, meanwhile, are to be paid double time on their seventh work day in a week.
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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
To put the end to these threats the new management made the chop-chop square work double time to demonstrate what will happen to zealots who want the country to stay behind.
—Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
The song’s not even asking for that..double time flows…talking about all this stuff that’s not even regarding the song.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
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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
To put the end to these threats the new management made the chop-chop square work double time to demonstrate what will happen to zealots who want the country to stay behind.
—Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
The song’s not even asking for that..double time flows…talking about all this stuff that’s not even regarding the song.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
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