If staff who regularly work unpaid overtime totted up all the extra hours they put in, and run them from the start of the year they’d be working for free until 1 March 2013. Across the UK, this adds up to nearly two billion unpaid hours, free work worth over £29bn to the economy.
We’ve been marking this day for 9 years now as Work Your Proper Hours Day. It’s a day for staff to think about their work life balance and how it impacts on their health, family life and productivity, as well as for employers to value the unsung – and unrewarded – effort their staff are putting in.
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posted 15/02/2013
Hugh Robertson at StrongerUnions.org has a post on real ways to improve health at work, rather than papering over the cracks in a dysfunctional workplace with well-being initiatives.
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If there was ever a good time to join a union, this would be it. Since the Coalition took power, a number of rights people had at work three years ago are simply no longer there. Read more…
posted 05/09/2012
Britons did a whopping two billion hours of unpaid overtime last year – worth a record £29.2 billion to the UK economy. Or put another way, that’s roughly equivalent to a million extra full-time jobs.
This means that this year’s Work Your Proper Hours Day falls on Friday 24 February. If workers who regularly put in unpaid overtime worked all their hours from the start of the year, the 24th Feb is first day they would get paid. Read more…
posted 05/01/2012
Blogging, tweeting, or keeping your friends up to date on facebook all blur the boundaries between our work and personal lives, but employers and workers alike are still struggling to adjust.
Arbitration service ACAS has issued new guidance to employers on how to manage the challenges and risks of social networking, from workplace bullying, recruitment, performance management to defamation and disciplinaries. It’s clear many employers need the prompt – research last year showed only 16% of UK employees were aware of any company guidelines in this area. Read more…
posted 29/09/2011
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