Go Home on Time Day
Do you find yourself working back late? Never quite getting out the door on time? Well, Go Home On Time Day on November 25 is your chance to make up for it!
The website address is www.gohomeontimeday.org.au
Why Go Home On Time?
The Australia Institute is organising this day.
According to a new survey by The Australia Institute, Australians work more than two billion hours of unpaid overtime a year, with around half of all employees putting in more hours than they are paid for.
On average, a typical employee works 49 minutes of unpaid overtime per day. For full-time workers, the average daily amount of unpaid work takes more than one hour.
Overwork can have negative consequences for your physical and mental health, your relationships with loved ones and your sense of what is important in life
We know that Australian workers are working too many hours and too much unpaid overtime!
The 70 minutes of unpaid overtime worked each day by the typical full-time employee equates to a staggering 33 eight-hour days a year, or six and a half standard working weeks.
Put another way, Australian workers are ‘donating’ more than their annual leave entitlement back to their employers.
Website www.gohomeontimeday.org.au where you can register your intention to participate and we’ll send you a ‘leave pass’. You can also invite overworked friends, family and colleagues to participate.
Most Australians have come to accept the ubiquitous need or expectation to work unpaid overtime, so for at least one day in the year we’re hoping that employers will be flexible enough to simply let their employees go home on time.
National Go Home On Time Day on November 25 is intended to be a fun, inclusive and guilt-free way of raising awareness of the nature and extent of unpaid overtime in Australia and the important industrial, health and social consequences it often has.
If you’d like to participate go to www.gohomeontimeday.org.au or you can find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/gohomeontimeday.
Read the research paper, Something for Nothing: unpaid overtime in Australia, Australian Institute.
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