Some of the factors affecting personnel assignment are listed here: 1. By corporate policy, part-time personnel hours are limited to a maximum of 40% of the day's total requirement. 2. Full-time employees work for 8 hours (1 hour for lunch included) per day. Thus, a full-timer's productive time is 35 hours per week. 3. Part-timers work for at least 4 hours per day but less than 8 hours and are not allowed a lunch break. 4. Fifty percent of the full-timers go to lunch between 11 A.M. and noon, and the remaining 50% go between noon and 1 P.M. 5. The shift starts at 9 A.M. and ends at 7 P.M. (i.e., overtime is limited to 2 hours). Any work left over at 7 P.M. is considered holdover for the next day. 6. A full-time employee is not allowed to work more than 5 hours overtime per week. He or she is paid at the normal

FIGURE 8.9

Time Period	Number of Personnel Req
9-10am	14
10-11	25
11-12	26
12-1	38
1-2	55
2-3	60
3-4	51
4-5	29
5-6	14
6-7	9

rate for overtime hours