Single women found to do most overtime

Workers who work the most unpaid overtime are likely to be single women under the age of 30, new research has suggested.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has discovered that 39% of this demographic regularly do unpaid overtime, despite the usual assumption that men work longer hours.

Just over a quarter (26%) of male employees under the age of the 30 told the TUC that they often work overtime for no extra money.

Brendan Barber, the TUC General Secretary, stated that when many women have children they no longer have the option to work overtime.

'It is hardly surprising therefore that the senior levels of most organisations are male and that the gender pay gap stubbornly persists,' he remarked.

Furthermore, employers take the extra hours worked 'for granted' and if allowed to build up it 'can damage people's health, relationships and morale at work,' Mr Barber added.

The TUC discovered recently that those working in media do the most unpaid overtime in UK workplaces.