Employees are feeling increasingly obligated to work unpaid overtime, with the average Australian doing more than nine hours every week. About 8.5 in 10 workers did at least some unpaid overtime each week, with the education sector racking up the most free hours on average at 12.2 per week. Unions NSW surveyed almost 5500 people across multiple industries, finding a majority of employees thought they would be limiting their career prospects if they did not do extra hours.
“This is affecting their physical and mental wellbeing, preventing them from spending time with their families and contributing to their communities … fears of reprisal, missing out on promotion, and threats from employers to give staff a worse roster all prevent workers from leaving on time.” Education , agriculture, forestry and fishing and transport, postal and warehousing were the sectors doing the most unpaid overtime.
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