some of the media commentary is amazing!!, page-7

"A typical full-time employee is working 70 minutes of unpaid overtime a day, which equates to 33 eight-hour days per year, or six-and-a-half standard working weeks."

Gee whiz, what a crime! I'd like to see where they get those figures too.

I recall a complaint from an employee recently that gained some attention where she complained she was being harassed and unfairly treated at work etc etc. Her complaint was when she arrived at work she liked to have a cup of coffee and settle before starting work and her employer was harassing her and demanding she start work when she arrived. Her scheduled start time was 9am, so that is when she arrived to make herself a coffee and settle in, actually starting work 20 minutes late every day. Of course at 5pm she was off like a horse out of the gates at the Melbourne Cup.

As an employer I get very tired of the one way street that Unions push.
An employee arrives at 8.30 for an 8.30 start, then makes a cup of coffee. At 10am morning tea for up to 20 minutes. At 12.30 on the dot lunch, unavailable for 60 minutes. Through out the day the personal phone calls and a bit of internet surfing to pass the time. Then 5pm, nothing but dust and empty office. Oh, and that doesn't include the paid time off through the year to pick up something, or extend the lunch break, or running late for work!

How anybody can whinge that they work unpaid overtime, absolute rubbish. If they took into account the time they spend at work doing nothing, along with above, then subtracted that from their so called unpaid overtime the ledger would be the other way.