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ACT people
work less
overtime
ACT employees worked con
siderably less overtime than those in
other States in a survey week in
February, according to figures is
sued yesterday by the Australian
Bureau of Statistics.
The ACT average of 0.62 hours of
overtime was less than half the Aus
tralian average of 1.48.
The figure was also the lowest re
corded in the ACT since the bureau
began issuing quarterly statistics in No
vember, 1980, though the next highest,
0.80, was still well below the lowest
national average of 1.44.
Only 10.49 per cent of ACT employ
ees worked overtime.
Those who did incurred an average
of 5.90 hours in the period, more than
an hour less than the national average
of 6.99. The highest was 7.39 in
Western Australia, followed by 7.23. in
Victoria, 7.16 in NSW. The lowest,
5.85, was recorded in South Australia.
The survey covered 3,100 employers
in Commonwealth, State and local Gov
ernments and payroll taxpayers in the
private sector, excluding those in agri
culture, private households and the per
manent defence forces.
The Australian average of 1.48 hours
compared with 1.44 in the same period
last year and the average overtime
incurred by employees who worked
overtime of 6.99 hours was lower than
the 6.83 last year.
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