26 February 2004 - Friday (27 Feb) is Work Your Proper Hours Day
If you do regular unpaid overtime, then exercise your right to work only your contractual hours, and remind your boss just how much modern workplaces depend on unpaid overtime.
Take a proper lunchbreak, not just a sandwich at your desk, and leave on time, to enjoy your own time on Friday evening. Why not get together with friends working nearby, and go for a coffee, a pint, or take in a show? You deserve it! This is one day in the year for your boss to appreciate your efforts, and for you to appreciate yourself.
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: 'We're not calling on Britain to turn into a nation of clock-watchers, but too many of Britain's bosses who depend on the unpaid overtime of their staff take it for granted and never show their appreciation. That's why we're saying that for one day a year people should make an effort to work their proper hours. They should come in on time, take their proper lunch break and leave when they are meant to, preferably on their way to somewhere where their boss will buy them a coffee or a cocktail.'
You can find out more on the TUC web site workSMART and find out where your job falls in the TUC’s unpaid overtime league on the TUC Working Life web site.
Get the official "Work Your Proper Hours Day" poster here...
I personally feel everybody should have a MONTHLY work your proper hours day, but that's just me!
