Firstly, the policy caters to the shopping needs of consumers who work shifts or have irregular working hours.

The irregular working hours affected worker's health and social life, and the private homes nearby where most staff were billeted.

Since he was posing as an artist and photographer, nobody questioned his irregular working hours and frequent disappearances.

A study done by Roberta Iversen and Annie Armstrong explains that due to long and irregular working hours, sometimes including evenings and weekends, poor parents are more likely to utilize informal childcare.

Twenty party members and 24 members of the National Democratic Front are said to have infiltrated the news media, although this sector said to be difficult to organize because of its irregular working hours and unusual life styles.

"The lifestyle of the typical New Yorker - long, irregular working hours; chronic stress; endless social engagements - demands round-the-clock attention," Time Out declared in an October 2000 article that highlighted the spa's 3 a.m. massages.

The BlackBerry and web-fueled 24/7 work culture that has developed over the past decade can make community volunteering unfeasible; an agreement to be at the same place, at the same time, every week, often doesn't mesh with today's irregular working hours.

As we have heard, the main objective of this directive, which is also both its political framework and its legal basis, is to protect workers from the harmful effects on their health and safety from working excessively long hours, inadequate rest or irregular working hours.

It has to be said, though, that there was no discussion in the proposal of the problems posed by shift work and the fatigue – that is, the physical and mental effects of irregular working hours – which does, of course, have effects on safety.