The Charity Insights Canada Project (CICP) published insights into uncompensated labour in the Canadian charitable sector. According to the research, 54% of Canadian charities have staff providing uncompensated, overtime labour for their organization. The areas or functions that organizations noted most commonly require staff to work uncompensated overtime include: fundraising activities (35%), program delivery or frontline services (33%), communications and public engagement (30%), and funder/donor reporting and compliance (19%).

Participating charities listed several reasons for uncompensated labour:

• Staff voluntarily working extra hours due to commitment to mission (61%),
• Funding or budget constraints limiting paying overtime or hiring (43%),
• Insufficient staffing relative to workload (39%),
• Too many job expectations to be completed within paid hours (34%), and
• Inflexible external deadlines and/or reporting requirements (31%)

Check out the CICP data for further insights, click here.