Of all forms of tangible investment "Standard Oil" has looked most favorably upon gas stocks, and its secret devices have been worked overtime in consolidating gas companies throughout the United States.
It was Peters who gave the snap away one night when we two were working overtime in the otherwise deserted offices.
My overtimecompanion had finished his job and was putting on his coat.
It's another of those words that work overtime and have suffered as a result.
Working overtime meant ten and twelve midnight before the day's work was done.
There came a memorable Saturday night when, having worked overtime all the week and earned an extra five shillings, he was paid his first half-sovereign.
He was paid for the overtime at the rate of a penny an hour.
Had your skills reached the point at which you had overtime work on Saturday when you sought it?
And he had not reached the point at which all of these factors combined enabled him to command or be reasonably fortunate in respect to having overtime work?
Mr. Graef said that he sought overtime employment; do you recall that?
I suppose the advancement has come, I suppose you've been paid for your overtime .
We generally have a few roustabouts to help out, but he's been allowed to make overtime as much as any of the others.
Any overtime work that has to be done is usually skilled labor on this job.
Burris is always yelling about not getting enough overtime work, but you know how it is: he's just a roustabout, a common laborer.
Overtime need not be forbidden, but every man who works overtime should have a legal claim to double wages for the extra hours.
The eight hours' day and double pay for overtimewould not only employ thousands now out of work, but would actually raise wages per hour and per day.
E's going ter help me with a little work--overtime is what 'e'll get fer it.
He finally asked him to come and help with the loading up of the boats, and gave him the chance of making a little overtime by simply keeping his mouth shut as to what went on.
If yer willin' ter lend a 'and, overtime you'll get, too.
But the provisions for overtime and compensation for overtime differ considerably.
They work on the same shifts as the men, receive the same pay, but are not worked overtime "because they must go home and perform their domestic duties.
Protection for the woman worker means exactly what it would mean for the alien man if by law he were forbidden to work Saturday afternoon, overtime or at night, while the citizen worker was without restriction.
Overtime was advised against, a double or triple shift being recommended.
The Labor Board has made some rather sweeping rulings in cutting down overtimepayments and the like, however--all to the cost of the rank and file of the railroaders.
Anything beyond that fairly good lapse of continuous labor was paid for as overtime "pro-rata.
In other words, the train-crew was paid the same figure for its sixteenth hour of continuous service as for its first one, and the incentive for the railroad to cut down its overtime is gone.
And now comes the question: What method of payment for overtime will produce a permanently satisfactory result?
In families where only one employee is kept, naturally the occasions for asking her to work overtime arise more frequently than in families where there are two or more employees, especially if there be small children in the family.
In this way each employee is paid for overtime in just proportion to the value of her regular services.
But I am equally opposed to the 45- or 50-hour week in those industries where consistently excessive use of overtime causes increased unemployment.
The elimination last autumn of overtime work for nearly all Federal employees meant a sharp cut in their incomes.
We should pass flex time so workers can choose to be paid for overtime in income or trade it in for time off to be with their families.
This overtime warn't in the agreement," sleepily retorted one of the men.
Overtime is in the agreement for every man in this camp when it's wanted of him---from the chief engineer all along the line.
I've got some overtime for you, since you need extra money.
That day the whole force worked overtime hunting for the men who had escaped; and by evening the Stonewall boys had received proof that it didn't pay to go against the police in large numbers.
The overtime continued, but it was dull after that--which made it even more tiring.
The only reason, apparently, for the limitation is that the salaries are so close that if shorthand-typists were paid for more overtime than 15 hours they would be earning more than the superintendents.
The salaries were good, but overtime was paid at only 6d.
A common grievance seems to be the amount of overtime imposed on many clerks, sometimes paid for, but often obligatory whether paid for or not.
Overtime is paid on a regular scale agreed upon by the companies and the union.
Differences with employers relating to such matters as promotion, hours of labor, wages, and overtime are settled by collective bargaining or, in case of failure to agree, by arbitration proceedings.
At the same time I know you'll find three or four men who want the overtime for dishing it out.
And let's see, we'll need him in the morning, but maybe we can give him the afternoon off in return for his overtime work tonight.
He frightened Ann by the hungry affection with which he greeted her when she came home, after working overtime to keep pace with a rush of work at her factory.
But with the union behind their demands this overtime work would cease and they would secure a better wage.
Wages had been raised, twelve hours or less and one hundred miles or less became recognized as a daily measure of service, and overtime was paid extra.
Our bears are such cheerful citizens, and they do so many droll things, that the average visitor works overtime in watching them.
He's the low-grade one, and she has to work overtime to make him pay.
A lot of us girls have been working overtime three nights a week.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overtime" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bit; overtime; relay; shift; stint; tour; trick; turn; watch
