News that teachers are putting in an extra 11.1 hours a week of unpaid overtime sadly comes as no surprise. It is even more concerning that this figure has risen by 90 minutes in the past 12 months.
The annual unpaid overtime figures for 2012 show that 52.4 per cent of teachers and educational professionals put in extra hours every week. The statistics (from the Labour Force Survey) have been released as part of the TUC’s Work Your Proper Hours Day – the day when the average person who does unpaid hours would start to get paid if they worked all their overtime at the start of the year.
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