These data suggest that in Spain there are approximately 797,000 workers who work overtime at work (this represents more or less 4.8% of the total number of employees), of which almost half are neither paid nor paid for these hours, this has been one of the reasons that has driven the Decree Law that comes into force this May, and which requires all the hours worked by a company's staff to be recorded and kept for 4 years.
Until now it was only mandatory to record the working hours of people hired on a part-time basis, but from this May 12th it will be necessary to record all working days (both part-time and full-time), and therefore try to avoid so many unpaid overtime hours being worked. To achieve this objective, the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate will begin to carry out inspections to verify compliance with this regulation.
The data reaches such a magnitude that, according to a study prepared by CCOO with data from the Active Population Survey corresponding to the second quarter of 2017, with all the overtime worked in Catalonia in this period, 18,000 jobs could be created.
It seems that the profiles that work the most overtime are men, with permanent contracts and full-time, with technical jobs in the private sector, such as services or industry.