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Work Your Proper Hours Day 2007

Today is Work Your Proper Hours Day, the day when the average person who does unpaid overtime finishes the unpaid days they do every year, and starts earning for themselves.

Unpaid overtime is all the little bits of additional time we all do on our normal contracted seven hour day; ten minutes before 9am, eat lunch at the desk, twenty minutes after 5pm etc, just to "finish that job..." Eventually most workers end up with this being their normal working practice - and they don't get paid for doing it.

Over five million people at work in the UK regularly do unpaid overtime, giving their employers £23 billion of free work every year.

Amicus, and other unions, are urging people today to take a proper lunch break and leave work on time to remind managers of all the extra unpaid hours, and is calling on Britain's bosses to say thank you for the extra work by taking their staff to lunch or an after-work coffee or cocktail.

To find out more about unpaid overtime and Work Your Proper Hours Day visit the Work Your Proper Hours Day website. where there fun ways to mark the day and a chance to win a special proper hours clock with the best photo of what people get up to in their lunch hours. 23rd February 2007

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