Unpaid overtime hours fall again
27th February 2006 by Richard Lee
Fewer people are working unpaid overtime, as the number of hours people work unpaid fell for the fourth year in a row this year.
According to the Trades Union Congress 4.76m workers did unpaid overtime last year – a six per cent fall since 2001.
The average amount of unpaid overtime was 7.4 hours a week for those workers who worked extra hours unpaid.
And only 19.4% of the workforce worked overtime unpaid, down from 21% in 2001.
However the TUC said that the UK had a way to go to catch up with the European average, as only 6.3% of people in the EU worked unpaid overtime.
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