Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

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OVERTIME WORK AND COMPENSATION IN ESTONIA
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
No compensation Free days Money compensation No overtime
The difference between women and men regarding unpaid overtime is of the
same magnitude in Estonia as elsewhere in the Baltic countries: women's
overtime is left unpaid more often than men's. Of those women who do overtime,
40 % receive no pay for it; the corresponding proportion of men is 32 %.
Both percentages, however, are clearly smaller than in Latvia and Lithuania.
Unpaid overtime is related to the occupation. On higher levels of the workplace
hierarchy people work overtime without pay more often than on lower
levels. In each Baltic country a considerable proportion of managers and specialists
work overtime without any compensation. However, especially in Latvia
and Lithuania also ordinary blue-collar workers are many times working
overtime without any pay. Furthermore, the actual unpaid overtime hours are
long. In Latvia nearly every fifth service sector worker (18 %) work overtime
without any compensation and on the average they work 17 hours per week
like that. Obviously this is alarming in many sense. In Lithuania nearly every
fourth of them (24 %) work unpaid overtime during a normal working week
but the number of these hours is clearly lower than in Latvia (8 hours per week
on the average). In each Baltic country it is essential to do more research concerning
overtime work. Why are people doing that in the first place that much