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‘Scotland’s economy is reliant on unpaid overtime,’ research reveals
Scottish Labour party's Alex Rowley during First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, 2017
PEOPLE should not be expected to work for free, Scottish Labour said after new research revealed the economy’s reliance on billions of pounds’ worth of unpaid overtime.
Analysis of the 2019 Annual Population Survey (APS) estimates that, on average, workers in Scotland do more than seven hours of unpaid overtime per week, equating to an annual total of 118 million hours.
The APS showed there to be 310,000 employees working unpaid overtime in the week that the survey was conducted, with 110,000 of them in the public sector.
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