According to Eurostat, Portugal is the fifth European Union (EU) member state with the highest percentage of workers working overtime (9%), with a European average of 7.1% in 2023.
According to the European Statistical Office, Greece is the country with the highest percentage of people working overtime (11.6%), followed by Cyprus (10.4%), France (10.1%), Italy (9.6%) and Portugal (9.0%). %).
At the other end of the table, the lowest rates were in Bulgaria (0.4%), Latvia and Lithuania (1.1% each), Romania (1.8%) and Estonia (2.0%).
Working hours refer to workers who typically spend 49 hours or more per week at work, and Eurostat also indicates that this rate is much higher among self-employed workers (29.3% of all these workers) than among employees (3.6 % general).
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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