Work Your Proper Hours Day
[ch 9: page 172]Work your Proper Hours Day is an annual TUC campaign highlighting the amount of unpaid overtime by Britain’s workers, and emphasising the risk to workers’ health of working long hours. In 2019, 28 February was the day when the average person who does unpaid overtime finishes the unpaid days they do every year and starts earning for themselves. The TUC says over five million people at work in the UK regularly do unpaid overtime, giving their employers £2 billion of free work in just one year. They put in an average of 7.5 extra unpaid hours a week — a total of two billion unpaid hours — and are missing out on an average £6,517 a year.
TUC, Work Your Proper Hours Day – let’s get tough on unpaid overtime (https://www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/work-your-proper-hours-day-%E2%80%93-let%E2%80%99s-get-tough-unpaid-overtime-1)