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2010.05.19
What could be better than getting twice the pay for doing exactly the same work?!
TIME AND A HALF / DOUBLE TIME 5割増賃金/倍額賃金
- To get time and a half for work is to earn 150% of (= one and a half times) your normal wage.
To get double time is to earn 200% of (= double) your normal wage. - 仕事について get time and a half と言うと、通常の賃金の150%(1.5倍)を支払われる、という意味になります。
get double time と言うと、通常の賃金の200%(2倍)を支払われる、という意味になります。
- The job pays time and a half for overtime.
- Workers on the night shift earn time and a half.
- (hospital nurse)
None of us like having to work on Christmas Eve, but at least they pay us double time. - The union says that workers should get double time for such hazardous work.
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