0 If you are paid double time, you are paid twice the usual amount for the time that you spend working, usually because you are working at the weekend or on an official holiday. If you work double time, you work twice as long as normal. --
1 a rhythm that is played at twice the speed of a previous one: --
2 If soldiers, etc. march in double time, they run slowly rather than walk. --
For some it may not be an inconvenience, indeed for a few it may be welcomed, as double time may well help the family budget.
Overtime rates are applicable, and these are paid on a basis of double time.
After all, special terms are to be granted to the owners of munition factories for the depreciation of machinery owing to their working double time.
Is it time and a quarter, time and a half, or double time?
To include statutory double time would take that far, far beyond what any other worker has.
However, restrictive practices and the business of paying double time when it is not necessary have ended.
A lot of trade union agreements contains precisely the same provision in regard to double time, and so on.
I suggest that there are three reasons why many large companies are willing to pay double time or significant premium payments short of double time.
