Not exact matches
When the Kellogg's cereal plant in Battle Creek, Mich., instituted six -
hour shifts — back in 1930 — work - related accidents dropped dramatically, as
did labour costs, turnover and overhead.
A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in
labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer
hours than household skills.
He's been spending many long
hours working hard and I feel I have to
do justice to his
labour.
Someone can deliver a live baby after two days of
labour and look back and think that they didn't need a c - section and be glad they didn't get one, but if a woman has been actlively
labouring for 12
hours, chances are that the risks of augmentation or a c - section are lower than the risks of waiting.
The expectation is that if
labour doesn't progress at a certain rate that there are risks (infection, maternal exhaustion, fetal death) associated with further waiting; that the longer
labour stalls the less likely it is to start progressing normally (if the baby is too stuck to move after two
hours of
labour, it's probably too stuck to move after two days of
labour) and there are no benefits to a long
labour.
I don't think I could have been more stressed with my first
labour (I wanted a cesarean and believed that there was no anesthesiologist or OR available)-- it was 5
hours from second contraction to delivery....
So, after a 20
hour labour with pethidine and the stitch - up from hell (1 1/4
hours of stitching with a local anaesthetic that didn't work, and no epidural available because it was «out of
hours» - women in that situation are not seen as a high priority for pain relief!)
It would be one thing to say, «it's ok, I'd rather die an agonizing death with an undelivered fetus after 72
hours of
labour than have a c - section and a live baby so why don't you just prescribe me some morphine so I can go home and gather my family» which would be bizarre but at least demonstrate understanding of the consequences.
The 20 ‑ 25 year olds had an average time of first stage
labour of 5 or 6
hours, as
did the first time mothers (text book average is 16 - 24
hours).
Considering most parents spend at least 24
hours in hospital over the course of their
labour, delivery and recovery, it's surprising that more hospitals don't provide the non-labouring spouse more than just a stiff waiting room chair.
I had my first baby at home, had a 30
hour labour and large baby... And then bled out like a stuck pig because my uterus didn't contract back.
I suffered from
labour pains for 12
hours and as was the case with me they had to rupture the sack as my water
did not break.
You didn't even know the meaning of worn out until you spent 12
hours in
labour only to be kept awake for the next three years.
«My baby is now three weeks old and I don't feel that «rush of love» people talk about - I had an emergency C - Section after 24
hours of extremely painful induced
labour.
I don't want them to work all the
hours God gives just to suffer from punitive taxes to pay for
Labour's profligate spending.
I don't agree with Tory plans to have more free schools, but I want an EU referendum; I agree with
Labour's plans to stop the exploitation of immigrant workers, but disagree with their manifesto commitment to abolish zero -
hours contracts.
And immigrants
do not cause low wages; predatory employers, deregulated
labour markets, the rise of zero -
hour contracts and proliferating agency workers
do that.
The
Labour leader
did appear on Monday evening — but then infuriated colleagues by leaving after less than an
hour without taking any questions.
As a keen
Labour support who's just getting into the leadership debate, I started my own blog at blogger.com/theyorkrose and
did a few
hours research.
Deputy
Labour leader Tom Watson has refused to rule out a second EU referendum - just an
hour after his shadow cabinet colleague Diane Abbott said the party
does not support the policy.
Now make that three
Labour ministers caught
doing so just
hours after the
Labour Party launched its election manifesto telling us all how quickly and decisively the present
Labour government had acted to clean up the parliamentary expenses scandal.
When I attended the
Labour Party Conference last year, in Manchester, I was struck by the fact I didn't meet a single business person over the 36
hours I was there.
Sadly
labour these days is a different animal then it was in my youth and when Plaid tried to end the exploitive Zero hour contracts Labour did a deal with the T
labour these days is a different animal then it was in my youth and when Plaid tried to end the exploitive Zero
hour contracts
Labour did a deal with the T
Labour did a deal with the Tories.
Labour leader Ed Miliband blasted: «We don't need to rename zero
hours contracts.
Construction workers participating in strenuous
labour for 10 - 12
hours a day that are also
doing weight training?
And delivery, however with my second baby I didn't drink the tea, and had 25
hours of
labour!
6:00 am — IFC — Love's
Labour's Lost Kenneth Branagh has taken on a lot of Shakespeare plays and usually
does them with incredible fidelity (like his uncut, four - plus
hour - long Hamlet).
The charter schools are horrendous
labour abusers - not only are they taking advantage of the children and families who don't know enough to keep their kids out of these schools — the staff are in constant fear for their job and are forced to work very long
hours.
If you're earning, say, an average of $ 100 per
hour, why invest time into
labouring on the more mundane aspects of life when you could hire someone else to
do it at an hourly rate of $ 20?
Little
did I know 12
hours of
labour wouldn't be the half of it.