Overtime bans are a type of strike in which workers refuse to engage in overtime work, being any work that falls outside of contracted hours.[1] They do this to leverage their employer into negotiating various working conditions. Often organised in unions, workers may choose this form of industrial action to bargain for a higher rate of pay, better working conditions or to discourage an employer from making redundancies.[1] Unlike a full strike in which employees are usually in breach of their contract, workers engaging in overtime bans are typically well protected. Employers cannot legally withhold normal wages during an overtime ban if employees are not breaching the terms of their employment contracts by refusing to do overtime work.[2] However, the legalities of overtime bans do vary between countries. Overtime bans are effective where "industries and organisations run on such habitually high levels of overtime or goodwill that overtime bans ... can have a significant and immediate impact upon the availability of a good or service".[3] Historically, unions have at times received criticism on ethical grounds for choosing to enact overtime bans. The literature records the occurrence of such bans from the 1800s and there is documentation of their use in four continents.
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^Grogan, John (1988). "The Legal Status of Overtime Bans". South African Law Journal. 105 (4): 656.
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Overtimebans are a type of strike in which workers refuse to engage in overtime work, being any work that falls outside of contracted hours. They do this...
branches advising to impose an overtimeban from 5 PM. Upon being advised of this, the employers advised that if the overtimeban continued the next day then...
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being locked in their cells for 23 hours a day during a Prison Officers' overtimeban. The site was then used as a military training camp by the UAE. In May...
The Times. 12 February 1964. p. 5. "Power Dispute Talks Break Down OvertimeBan On Monday, Union Delegation Walks Out Of Meeting". The Times. 20 March...
the regulations. This was backed up by threat of a work-to-rule and overtimeban if their demands were not met by 13 September. Further prison officers...
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(9 hours a day including an hour of break). Overtime is strongly discouraged with the premium on overtime being 100% of the total wage. The Payment of...
called a general election over another official strike, called after an overtimeban had led to a Three Day Week in Britain, and lost the election to the...
collective protest in the 1950s and 1960s. With the exception of an overtimeban and work-to-rule by administrative staff in 1957, organised by NALGO...
Examination of pay rates for craftsmen and their mates. — threatening an overtimeban and work-to-rule if the demands were not met. Their employers, represented...
2–4, 1966. Academic Press. p. 1020. "Power Dispute Talks Break Down OvertimeBan On Monday, Union Delegation Walks Out Of Meeting". The Times. 20 March...
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