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Labor leaders and organizations had the power to demand it.

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The number of working hours, and working weeks in a year, can vary from case to case. You can assume an average of about 8 working hours a day, 5 days a week, and perhaps 50 working weeks a year - but it may be a bit less, depending on how many weeks of vacation an employee has. Also, an employee will usually not work 40 hours every week on average; it will be a bit less due to sick leave, vacations, etc. Anyway, you can make an estimate based on these numbers - probably anywhere between 2000 working hours a year, and perhaps 10-20% less than that.


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