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2013 Handy Festival schedule announced
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 23 hours ago
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Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival has announced the scheduled for the 24th-annual festival that opens June 8 in downtown Henderson. Music headliners for this year's festival include Bernard Allison, the Royal Southern Brotherhood, Voice of the Wetlands
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For Office Workers, Lunchtime Dance Parties
New York City :: NY :: USA | 10 days ago
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Benjamin Norman for The New York Times Guests head into Marquee in Chelsea for Lunch Break, a free hourlong party that includes a brown-bag lunch. But shortly after noon on a sunny, 65-degree Friday in April, Ms. Batista, 31, jumped into a cab with
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Whatever happened to the lunch hour? How breaks have been reduced to just 29 minutes because we're too busy
Chelmsford :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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25 January 2013 The end of the hour lunch break: The average Brit now takes just 29 minutes for lunch Frantic Britons now spend less than 30 minutes taking a break for lunch because they are too busy to take the traditional full hour, a new survey
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Anna Soubry: Eating a sandwich at your desk is 'disgusting' and office workers should take a proper lunch break, warns minister
Dundee :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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19 Click to rate Rating 19 Well I've got a few options at work. I can eat in the college canteen which is full of screaming teenagers. I can eat in the staff "Recreation area" which is usually so packed you can't get a seat, is also very noisy &
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Starbucks to slash paid lunch breaks and sick leave
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
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Starbucks baristas have been told to sign revised employment terms that include the removal of paid 30-minute lunch breaks. Photograph: Jeff Gilbert/Alamy Starbucks is cutting paid lunch breaks, sick leave and maternity benefits for thousands of
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Is your desk making you fat? Office feeders and desk-based lunch breaks are turning us in to a nation of boardroom blobs
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
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11 October 2012 City workers who slave away over their lunch break to meet targets and hit bonuses aren't just seeing an increase in their salaries. According to a new survey, as stress levels rise for desk-bound office workers, so does their waist-
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Lunch at your desk? The boss owes you a week off
Sydney :: Canada | 8 months ago
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The survey also found that 16 per cent of workers said they sometimes skipped lunch to impress their boss. The figure was much higher among younger workers, jumping up to 30 per cent of 25 to 34 year olds and 24 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds. Almost
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Should lunch breaks be mandatory?
Tōkyō :: Japan | 8 months ago
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Even when we have lunch alone, we rarely spend the whole time quietly reading or thinking. We are more connected to our hand-held electronic devices than our own thoughts. Given the fast pace of modern life, it is worth considering whether employers
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Swedish health agency criticizes hospital
Lidköping :: Sweden | 8 months ago
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A 72-year-old Swedish man died during surgery when his anesthetist left the operating room to have lunch, prompting criticism from the Swedish health board. The man went to a hospital in Lidkoping to have a tumor removed from his kidney in January
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Hospital cleaner sacked for speaking Polish during her lunch break
Oslo :: Norway | 9 months ago
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5 September 2012 A hospital in Norway has sacked a Polish cleaner after she was overheard speaking in her mother tongue during work lunch breaks. Johanna Renclawowicz received a letter saying she was fired from Sykehuset Telemark hospital because '
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