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:: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 ::
The new face of slave labour By Paula Dear, BBC NEWS
Are you putting in a day's work for free today? It may sound like a ridiculous notion. After all, it's only slaves or the most altruistic of people who work for nothing, isn't it?
But according to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) millions of Britons work so much unpaid overtime they are, on average, providing their employers with free work for the equivalent of nearly eight weeks of the year.------------------------------------------- posted 1:33 PM :: reference link ::
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