§ 31. Mr. J. H. Osbornasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is now the average overtime in hours worked per employee per week in each of the main manufacturing and service industries and in total, and in each case how much of the total take-home pay is due to overtime; and how this position compares with that of a year ago.
§ Mr. BryanThe reply is long and statistical. The latest available information is as follows
Information on overtime worked by operatives in manufacturing industries is obtained each month and published in the Department's Gazette. An industrial analysis comparing September, 1970, and September, 1971, is given below. In these industries, the average overtime worked was 2.4 hours per operative in the week ended 18th September, 1971, compared with 2.9 hours in the corresponding week in 1970.Information about overtime pay and hours in April is obtained from the annual New Earnings Surveys. Among full-time manual men whose pay was not affected by absence in the survey pay-period in April, 1970, overtime pay then accounted on average for 16.4 per cent. of total 196W earnings, before tax and national insurance deductions, but only 2.4 per cent. for full-time women and non-manual men. Tables 44 to 47 of the published report, New Earnings Survey 1970 give detailed industrial analyses. Corresponding April, 1971, figures will be available shortly.
OVERTIME HOURS WORKED BY OPERATIVES (OTHER THAN MAINTENANCE WORKERS) IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES *Average hours per operative per week Industry Week ended 19th September, 1970 Week ended 18th September 1971 Food, drink and tobacco 3.2 3.2 Coal and petroleum products 1.6 1.6 Chemicals and allied industries 2.6 2.2 Metal manufacture 2.7 2.2 Mechanical engineering 4.5 3.3 Instrument engineering 2.8 2.3 Electrical engineering 2.4 1.9 Marine engineering 3.3 2.6 Vehicle 2.5 1.9 Metal goods not elsewhere Specified 3.2 2.6 Textiles 1.7 1.7 Leather, leather goods, and fur 2.3 2.3 Clothing and footwear 0.5 0.5 Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc. 3.5 3.3 Timber, furniture, etc 3.7 3.2 Paper, printing and publishing 3.3 2.9 Other manufacturing industries 2.9 2.7 All manufacturing industries excluding shipbuilding and ship-repairing 2.9 2.4 The estimates relate to establishments with 11 or more employees. *Average overtime hours worked by all operatives (i.e. total overtime hours divided by total operatives whether or not they worked overtime).