Unpaid Overtime in Australia
Motion | Spokesperson Rachel Siewert
Wednesday 25th November 2009, 12:00am
That the Senate notes:
- 25 November 2009 is national Go Home On Time Day;
- Australians work more than 2 billion hours of unpaid overtime each year;
- Australians work the longest hours in the western world;
- excessive unpaid overtime has significant industrial, economic and social implications; and
- long working hours can have negative consequences for physical and mental health and personal relationships.
Question agreed to.

