FDA supports Work Your Proper Hours Day 2011

Today - Friday 25 February 2011 - is Work Your Proper Hours Day. According to TUC research, this is the day when those who do unpaid overtime would start, on average, to get paid if they did all their unpaid work at the start of the year. Now in its eighth year, the campaign highlights the amount of unpaid work carried out by employees across the UK.

TUC analysis found that over one in five workers (21%) regularly worked unpaid overtime last year, the highest proportion since 1997. Public sector workers are the most likely to do unpaid overtime, with over one in four (26%) regularly putting in more than seven hours of unpaid overtime a week, compared to around one in six workers in the private sector (19%). For more information, please visit the campaign website www.workyourproperhoursday.com.

If you would like to share your views on working hours with the FDA and other members, please visit the FDA working hours discussion forum. You will be asked to log in to the site before you will be able to place your comments.