staggered hours

An employee on a permanent contract takes paid or unpaid leave during school holidays Staggered hours.

Our branch library was open six days a week, with some staggered hours and the heaviest traffic on Saturday afternoons.

(Some party givers even invite their guests to come at staggered hours.)

He had five bars that he opened, with staggered hours, that took him from seven in the morning till noon.

"The best way we can provide short-term capacity is for employers to encourage staggered hours," Mr. Warsh said.

The construction of the school was delayed because of a steel strike, so the registered pupils attended Westview School on staggered hours until January 1960.

Mr. Murphy and Mr. Garripey agree with Ms. Leeds that staggered hours would help solve the problem.

Staggered hours have been promoted as a means of spreading demand across a longer time span, for example in Rush Hour (1941 film) and by the International Labour Office.

Prior to that date, registered students attended Margaret Underhill Elementary School (École Margaret-Underhill) on staggered hours.

In addition to letting employees telecommute, businesses are also encouraging workers to use mass transit, in many cases picking workers up at the train stations and letting them work staggered hours.

Dr. Pruett advocates flexibility in the workplace, allowing for staggered hours, temporary leave time to deal with family needs and, especially, paternity leave policies for the first crucial weeks a baby is home.

At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport just south of the city, employees were offered the option of staggered hours, a spokesman said, and other businesses are also encouraging employees to come to work at off-hours.

"It's O.K. if you can work staggered hours," said Neil Singh, sales manager for a real-estate marketing company who, until recently, commuted from Riverhead to Sunnyside, Queens, via the expressway.

The state and private employers are now experimenting with staggered hours for thousands of workers in an effort to ease the traffic problem, and preliminary indications are that having some employees drive to work as little as 15 minutes earlier than others could be somewhat successful.

At the state level, Alan N. Bloom, regional planning engineer for nine counties, including Westchester, said that the state has no major plans for either of the highways, and communities may have to restrict their development or find other ways to deal with traffic, such as advocating car pools or staggered hours for business.