March 1st in Billable Hour, News, Pay by Editor .
Lawyers ‘extreme’ unpaid hours revelation
For those of you that didn’t already know this…
Lawyers are in the ‘extreme’ category when it comes to the amount of hours they put in.
Gazette: Lawyers are among the most likely workers to do ‘extreme’ unpaid overtime, figures have revealed.
Research by the Trades Union Congress found that 18% of legal professionals did more than 10 hours of unpaid overtime a week.
The study found that 22,717 legal professionals were working an average of 16 hours a week for no extra pay.
Which will come as no surprise to most of you. How often do you hear, “If you divide my salary by the number of hours I actually work, I’m not really that well paid” or similar?
March 1, 2010
16 hours ‘unpaid’ – they must be the lucky ones
March 1, 2010
what about the 18% who only have to do 10???
March 3, 2010
surely not???????????