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Working time 2000

Summary

The IRS Employment Trends survey of hours and holidays was carried out in late autumn 1999. Information was received from 110 employing organisations, in respect of 263 employee groups, together accounting for more than half a million employees:

  • 74 replies (67%) came from private sector employers, and 36 (33%) from the public sector; and

  • survey responses covered 190 non-manual groups (72%), 57 manual groups (22%), and 16 mixed groups that contain both manual and non-manual workers (6%).