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Public sector workers doing £11 billion free hours each year to keep essential services running

Millions of public sector workers are contributing £11 billion of free hours each year to keep essential services running. New research by GMB, the union for public sector staff, found that almost a quarter of public sector staff regularly work an average of eight hours unpaid hours a week. If public sector workers were paid […]

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2017-07-24 08:26
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Millions of public sector workers are contributing £11 billion of free hours each year to keep essential services running.

New research by GMB, the union for public sector staff, found that almost a quarter of public sector staff regularly work an average of eight hours unpaid hours a week.

If public sector workers were paid for these hours, they would be owed an extra £6,000 on average – equivalent to a 24 per cent pay rise.

As it is, the pay freeze will remain intact at 1 per cent despite record levels of inflation.

Rehana Azam, GMB National Secretary for Public Services, said: “Philip Hammond says that public sector workers are ‘overpaid’ but these shocking new figures show just how out of touch he is.

“Public sector workers are the backbone of our society – working above and beyond their contracted hours because they are committed to jobs they love.

“Yet the Government rewards their dedication with crippling real-terms pay cuts.

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“Ministers think they can push staff indefinitely, but low pay, unmanageable workloads and stress are pushing many of our members to the limit.

“Unpaid hours mean that thousands are effectively earning below the minimum wage, especially in the care sector.

“The reality is that public services are held together by the devotion of overworked and underappreciated employees, who are effectively handing the Government £11 billion worth of their labour for free.

“It’s frankly patronising and ill-informed to dismiss calls for wages increases when millions of salaries would rise by a quarter if payslips genuinely reflected all hours worked.

“Enough is enough – it’s time to tackle ever rising workloads and give our public sector workers the real pay rises they desperately need and deserve.”

Public sector workers are almost twice as likely to work unpaid overtime than their private sector counterparts.

More than three hundred thousand public sector workers – or one in twenty – said they usually worked fifteen or more unpaid hours a week.

Midwives and social workers were two of the hardest hit public sector occupations, with almost four in ten typically putting in unpaid hours.

A quarter of people in school support staff roles, such as teaching assistants and school secretaries, also regularly worked unpaid.

412,000 public sector jobs have been cut since 2010 which has raised workloads while demand has risen.

Public sector occupations

Occupation

Per cent regularly working unpaid hours

Midwives

37.5

Social workers

36.9

School secretaries

28.2

Nurses

28.5

Librarians

27.4

Teaching Assistants

26.0

Police and Community Support Officers

21.0

Private sector average

14.4

Proportion regularly working unpaid hours (per cent)

Country/Region

Public Sector

Private sector

UK

26.8

14.4

North East

22.1

11.6

North West

26.6

12.5

Yorkshire and Humberside

26.4

11.9

East Midlands

30.1

14.5

West Midlands

21.4

10.8

East of England

31.6

14.2

London

29.6

19.1

South East

29.8

16.6

South West

32.8

16.1

Wales

18.9

11.4

Scotland

22.9

12.4

Northern Ireland

14.7

9.3

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