Austria: 22% of Overtime Unpaid

BusinessEconomy ♦ Published: August 25, 2012; 15:19 ♦ (Vindobona)

In 2011, more than a fifth of the overtime was not paid by employers. In total, 66.9 million long hours were unpaid.

Austria: 22% of Overtime Unpaid / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Last year, 303 million long hours were registered last year. Against 2010, this is a decrease by 4.1%. Male employees worked 218 million long hours, female employees recorded 85 million long hours.

For 22% of the long hours neither time off was offered, nor payments were made. Regarding male employees, 19,65% of the overtime was not paid. The share of unpaid long hours at female…