Overview

• Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis workers logged about 3.7 million overtime hours last year, including roughly 1.9 million unpaid, according to the NGG‑commissioned Pestel‑Institut monitor.
• Unterallgäu saw an estimated 2.2 million extra hours with about 1.2 million unpaid, while Neuburg‑Schrobenhausen recorded around 1.2 million overtime hours with roughly 624,000 unpaid.
• In hospitality, the monitor reports thousands of extra hours locally and finds about 53 percent of overtime in hotels, restaurants and beer gardens went unpaid.
• A Berlin cut of the study estimates 54.4 million overtime hours in 2024 with 30 million unpaid, including about 1.4 million in hospitality with 52 percent unpaid.
• NGG officials warn the coalition’s plan to replace the 8‑hour day with a weekly cap could permit shifts up to 12 hours 15 minutes and weeks near 73.5 hours, citing health and family‑balance risks and urging local Bundestag members to resist the change; the figures are district‑level estimates based on federal employment data and national averages.