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Old Nov 17, 2003, 07:49 pm   #12 (permalink) (top)
G. Adams
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I can't find a definitive one for the UK, I have read that we have the longest hours in Europe, typically 48 hours a week. Then I read we average between 34-38hrs, but it didn't count overtime.

I do know that, until Labour took power, we have the lowest average wages in the industrialised world. Thank fuck labour introduced a minimum wage.

Actually its possible that 48 hours was pre labour, where you would have to work that long to get a decent living wage.


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