While the 40-hour workweek is common, longer hours are not uncommon. On 1 April 1994, a 40-hour workweek was introduced. In 2000, Lionel Jospin's government enacted the 35-hour workweek, reduced from 39 hours. In 1998, a law establishing the 35-hour workweek was adopted. Vietnam has a standard 48-hour six-day workweek. Employees gained $2,000,000 in pay increases, a shorter workweek, and overtime pay. The article was excerpted in "The 4-Hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferriss. He has stated that "The 4-Hour Workweek" was based on this period. The forty-hour workweek of public servants includes lunch time. The average workweek for full-time employees is 47 hours. In 1974, the average workweek for Soviet industrial workers was 40 hours. Motorists also waste 4.2 billion hours annually, or one full workweek per traveler. For a time, the UK imposed an emergency three-day workweek. In Israel, the standard workweek is 42 hours as prescribed by law. They rejected a strong move in Congress to limit the workweek to 30 hours.