By IRNA,
London : Some six million employees, equivalent to 24 per cent of the British workforce, are not satisfied with their jobs, according to a report from trade unions.
The commonest problem that faces British people at work was found to be increased workload, with complaints coming from as many as 11 million workers (46 per cent).
The report, based on an extensive YouGov poll of more than 2,500 workers, found that 42 per cent also protested that “pay not keeping up with the cost of living.”
Almost two-in-five workers also complained of increased stress levels, while 23 per cent were not happy about having to work longer hours.
“There are some challenging figures here for British employers with a quarter of the workforce saying they are not satisfied with their jobs,” the general secretary of the Trades Unions Congress, (TUC) Brendan Barber said.
Barber also revealed that almost one in three workers in the report on ‘What workers want’ complained that “employers do not engage with them.”
Other findings were that 30 per cent spoke of poor promotion prospects and 27 per cent, almost seven million, said they lack training.
Some three and a half million people reported that they have been bullied in their current job and just under two and a half million criticized their workplace as being unsafe.
The most commonly reported discrimination was on the grounds of age, while nearly six million said they suffer from boring or repetitive work.
The report comes ahead of next weeks annual TUC conference. It said that the main issue that workers most want unions to raise with government is “more protection for the low paid against exploitation by the worst employers.”
It also called for “action to close the pay gap between men and women” and for “more rights and opportunities for employees to get training and learn new skills.”