Traditional Standard for Full-Time Employment. The standard for full-time employment was typically 40 hours a week in the past. However, many employers now consider employees as full-time when they work fewer hours i.e. over 30 hours, 35 hours, or 37.5 hours. Because there are no laws regulating full-time employment for compensation and benefits purposes, the organization determines how many hours per week are considered full-time.
Thus, blocking the expansion of the USSR and communism. It was originally devised by US diplomat and historian George F. Kennan, best known as âthe father of containmentâ. His writings inspired the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of containment during the Truman Administration. American HistoryHistoryPolitical Facts.
Containment and the Marshall Plan. 1  This illustration from the July 16, 1948, U.S. News magazine shows the beginnings of American containment policy. The U.S. is seen sending troops, advisors and weapons to Turkey in hopes that the country will resist communism and remain democratic.