Education workers are doing the most unpaid overtime

The University and College Union (UCU) said the figures, released as part of the TUC's Work Your Proper Hours Day, highlighted how staff working in schools, colleges and universities continue to go above and beyond the call of duty and put in the extra unpaid mile.

The analysis reveals that over a third of people working in education (37.6) do extra unpaid work and, at an average of nearly 10 hours a week, they clock up more unpaid overtime than any other industry.

UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'These figures reveal how staff in our schools, colleges and universities are going that extra unpaid mile. Not only are people working in education putting in the most unpaid overtime, they are also more likely than any other industry to be doing unpaid work.

'This commitment is all the more admirable considering the increasingly difficult climates staff have to operate in. The time has come for schools, colleges and universities to recognise the hard work their staff do, reward them fairly and sort out their workloads.'

Today is Work Your Proper Hours Day - the day when the average person who does unpaid overtime would start to get paid if they did all their unpaid hours at the start of the year. More details are available at www.workyourproperhoursday.com

TUC analysis of Office for National Statistics. Labour Force Survey, July - September, 2014