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Originally Posted by BWinmill
You are lucky to get away with that little unpaid overtime. The BBC has had a number of articles on this issue over the years. Punch "unpaid overtime site:bbc.co.uk" into your favourite search engine and be dazzled by the number of hits. A particularly telling article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4273169.stm
At least two Canadian provinces (BC and Ontario) have declared a war on teachers and legislated teachers to do voluntary work, most of which is unpaid and takes place outside of normal business hours. That is unionized teaching. Ununionized teachers often face a lot worse. (I was typically doing 20 to 40 hours per week of unpaid labour while teaching on reserves, but that is a very special circumstance.) |
Average of 10-12 hours of overtime for teachers? That means 10-11.5 hour workdays. This can happen on occasion (and has to be granted by an overseeing organization if it's for a longer time), but it's certainly not unpaid. That's illegal in the Netherlands. If a company is structurally causing employees to work 10+ hours extra a week without paying extra (excep for the special high level positions as mentioned), they'll be in trouble at some point.