EASTERN EUROPE/BRITAIN HOURS
April 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLWORKING hours in Britain exceed those in most new European Union (EU) member states from eastern and southern Europe says a report showing how western Europe workers generally work fewer hours. Britain's usual weekly work hours, said the European Industrial Relations Observatory are 43.1, only exceeded in the expanded EU by Latvia's 43.3. The latest available comparative figures (2003) say workers in Romania (41.8), Poland (41.5), the Czech Republic (41.1), Slovenia (41.4) and Estonia (41.1), all work less, and these are the EU countries with the ...
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