Over 5 million staff do unpaid overtime
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Your support makes all the difference.A record 5.26 million people worked unpaid overtime last year, clocking up an average of more than seven hours a week without pay, according to a new study.
The TUC said workers were missing out on almost £5,500 a year, worth £29bn to the economy.
One in five employees regularly put in extra unpaid hours last year, with public-sector workers most likely to work unpaid overtime,said the TUC.
The number of workers doing unpaid overtime was the highest since records began in 1992, the research found, with 5.26 million people clocking up an average of seven hours 12 minutes unpaid overtime every week.
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