Older Employees Do More Unpaid Overtime

Older Employees tend to get on with their work and not natter constantly about football and how many girls they've screwed.

If I'd been paid a quid for every hour's overtime I put in it would have paid off my mortgage. and how do I get paid? made redundant, chucked on the scrap heap and made to feel like a scrounger. Wonder why I bothered, If consistant overtime is needed then either you should be paid for it or they should employ someone else to do it, do the country a favour and cut down the unemployement figure and boost the economy

Nobody should work for no pay even unpaid overtime

I don't get paid for overtime in my job. I officially finish at 4:30pm, but sometimes I have to deal with things up to 6 pm, but my boss says that's just normal work and won't give me time off in lieu until after 6 pm. I'm 62.

Workers always get exploited in times of recession, low wages and long hours...Because they're all afraid of losing their jobs..and the greedy employers know this...What happened to all the European directives that were supposed to protect workers form this...

WHY DO UNPAID OVERTIME.. at the end of the day your just a number to most companies and if they can drop you just to save themselves money the most of them will. and most companies forget that they also signed your employment contract stating they will pay you x amount for your 40 hours .. they never said anything about you working for free. ill bet they dont do any free work for their clients

No one should be asked to work unpaid but this is what it is coming down to, the thought of losing a job as you near retirement age is frightening and this is probably the reason why older workers will do that extra bit without asking for overtime, if the bosses get away with this where will it lead.

Forgive me for stereotyping but the majority of people this age come from a totally different era. They have housewives at home, taking care of the cooking and cleaning etc.

As a single person, it is no fun going home and cooking/clearing up until 9 o'clock at night, then getting a measley couple of hours to yourself before bedtime.

Old Yorkshire saying. "A man who'll work for nowt and a woman who'll **** for nowt 'll get a job anywhere

Maybe they get given more work as they have the most experience & can do more of the work.

I beg to differ with Christine Blower, she needs to get out more! I work part-time, 9-5.30 and had a written warning for arriving at 8.54 even though I regularly work 30mins-an hour and a half overtime with no extra pay. Workers are held to ransom because there is always someone from elsewhere in the EU waiting to take your place for less money!

Dont work for someone else- work for yourself- find a service that is needed by the general public, and make sure you get paid by the hour. If you work for someone else, they are only interested in you if they can make money out of you, and sadly, judging from this blog, many people are happy to work for nothing. By working for someone else- you are admitting you have no get up and go sales technique- Work for yourself.!

Usual moaning teachers, dont worry you get months of holiday to make up for it and working past 3:30 isn't really overtime is it.

You get paid to do a job. Doing that job means performing what is required. There is no such thing as overtime.

This should be a wake up call to these youngsters,doing a bit extra demonstrates commitment, a virtue hardly ever found in the younger generation. As for the amount of cash this is said to save, if it was all paid, then the products being manafactured would cost even more, making them less competitive in the global market......QED.. Ends.

That is because us young people won't do work for companies who treat us like dirt and not get money at the end of it. Older people feel like they will lost their jobs if they don't. I have never done any extra work unpaid, why should I? Where is the incentive? My company pays people on an older contract more money for working Sunday, but I don't, how is that fair?

i employ people and it is job and done, i wont employ clockwatchers. Same as I wont employ women under 45, maternity laws make it impossible for businesses.

As usual moaning teachers. They get a Salary and that means they work as needed for a guaranteed income. Thats why they and others elected for the snobery of a Salary as against hourly paid. If you are skilled and efficient you can do your job with ease. Most people have no time management skills.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) said a 250,000 more workers in their late 50s and early 60s put in unpaid hours last year compared with 2001, while the number in their 20s has fallen by a third.That,s because the 50s and early 60s don,t have a social life.

Of course they're more likely to do overtime then their younger counterparts, because a lot of people in their 20-30's have young children they want/need to spend time with. Older employees don't have as many commitments they need to leave early/on time for. I'm sure single and childless 20-30's as just as likely to do overtime.