Friday, February 25 is the day in 2005 when the TUC estimates that people who do unpaid overtime will stop working for free and start to get paid. The TUC is urging people who do unpaid overtime to ’work your proper hours’ on that day so that they take a proper lunch-break, and arrive and leave work on time.
This should remind Britain’s employers just how much they depend on the good will and voluntary extra work of their staff, the TUC says. Indeed the TUC is urging Britain’s bosses to take their staff out for lunch, coffee or a cocktail on ’work your proper hours day’ to say thank you for their hard work and commitment.
The TUC will run an intense PR campaign in the run up to the second ’work your proper hours’ day. This will be an annual event, said TUC Head of Campaigns, Nigel Stanley. It’s an ideal opportunity for leisure, arts and the hospitality industry to introduce special promotions on that day, and join the celebration. This is not a confrontational campaign, but we do work the longest hours in Europe. Every so often even people who love their jobs and are happy to put in extra hours want to be told they are not taken for granted. And if it makes people and employers think a bit harder about organising a better work-life balance, so much the better.
The TUC has used the official Labour Force Survey, which measures unpaid overtime, to work out when ’work your proper hours day’ will fall.
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February 25 is work your proper hours day in 2005
Friday, February 25 is the day in 2005 when the TUC estimates that people who do unpaid overtime will stop working for free and start to get paid
