nonwork

nonwork

(ˌnɒnˈwɜːk)
n
that part of life which does not involve work
adj
not involving or relating to work; that is not work
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Eileen Boris applies feminist theory to the postwar history of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and concludes that government officials interpreted and treated home-based labor in the garment industries as nonwork. Finally, Joel Rogers attributes the post-Second World War decline in union memberships, not to missed opportunities or to faulty union leadership, but to the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959, which kept the costs of organizing new membership very high and encouraged union officials to concentrate on maintaining their influence in areas already organized.
* Does an employer have to make nonwork areas used by employees (cafeterias, lounges, or employer-provided transportation) accessible to people with disabilities?
And the close connection between workplace and nonwork activties -- recreation, health care, even shopping -- provides some salutary examples for the future.
Our people strike a balance between work and their nonwork lives, and our people are interested in giving back to the community.
The NUJP insisted that the 71yearold Lim's death could not be derided as "nonwork related" as he was strongly hitting local officials allegedly involved in illegal drug trade in the province.
Our data indicate that repatriates exhibit higher levels of commitment to their organizations, but especially to their local work units, when their spouses are positively surprised by the overall nonwork conditions of their lives.
Conflicts with the company over alcohol consumption and gambling formed part of miners' private, everyday struggle to express their control over their nonwork lives in the camps' barracks and passageways.
We beg the indulgence of our hardworking government officials if we preempt themlest in their concern over the impunity with which journalists have continued to be murdered under their watch, they chalk this one up as another "nonwork related" deathby pointing out that colleagues in Bohol have confirmed that, before his death, Lim had been hitting hard at local officials linked to the illegal drug trade.
And I do not mean to justify the significant amounts of employee time inappropriately spent on nonwork matters when I cite the other side of the coin--BUT--employers started demanding that employees spend a considerable amount of their ostensible nonwork time on company matters long before the advent of Facebook or LinkedIn.
In contrast to many previous studies, it is argued here that, in comparing responses to estimate questions about time spent working with data from time diaries on time spent working, there are several findings from both recent and earlier time-diary research that support the conclusion that the gap between answers to estimate questions and time-diary figures is persistent and consistent (although it does not appear to be especially large) and that respondents tend to give even more inaccurate answers when asked estimate questions about a number of different nonwork daily activities, like housework and sleep.
One issue that employers constantly wrestle with is work-life balance, the allocation of employees' time and energy between work and family, health activities, hobbies and all of life's nonwork requirements.
It prevents employers from acting against workers who are medical marijuana cardholders for smoking pot off the work site during nonwork hours.