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Unpaid overtime crisis: British employees work millions of extra hours
Research of 2,000 employees found 87% work an average of five and a half hours more every month outside their contracted agreement which they aren’t paid for. This amounts to 153 million cumulative hours of work each month which goes unpaid – or 19 million eight-hour working days. More than a quarter (26%) end up…