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Slovaks work longer than EU peers.

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(From The Slovak Spectator)

Survey ACCORDING to a new finding by the EU statistics office, Eurostat, Slovak employees work an average of 41 hours per week - more than in most European Union countries - and spend 10 hours more in the workplace than Dutch employees, for example.

Eurostat claimed that populations in the post-socialist countries that entered the EU in 2004 work comparatively longer than in the EU15, the SME daily reported.

Economists attribute the longer working hours in Slovakia to the ...

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