Unpaid overtime costing million jobs
The CWU has called on the government and employers to "work
together to create jobs" after a hard-hitting TUC report
revealed how one million new posts could be generated by tackling
the scourge of unpaid overtime.
According to research by the TUC, staff worked a staggering two
billion hours without pay last year worth a record £29.2
billion to the UK economy - roughly equivalent to a million extra
full-time jobs. CWU general secretary Billy Hayes described the
figure as "shocking" and called for urgent action to
reform the long-hours culture in the UK.
Billy said: "With unemployment rising and the economy
teetering on the brink of a new recession, we've got to make
job creation our number one priority.
"But these figures show that UK employers are cynically using the current situation to force workers into ever-longer hours - without pay," he added.
Source: CWU
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