A LABOUR attack on the SNP has backfired after the party made a fundamental misunderstanding about what powers are devolved to Scotland.
Analysis from Scottish Labour suggested that Scottish workers are doing an average of 7.7 hours of unpaid overtime a week.
Clocking all this extra time from Scottish workers up to a year amounts to around 100 million hours of unpaid work, according to Scottish Labour which suggested that staff could be entitled to 1.4 billion in unpaid wages.
A tweet from the party's Twitter account that workers not being paid enough was the fault of the SNP government in Scotland.
In fact, employment law is a reserved power, meaning Westminster has control of reforming the legislation for overtime work.
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The Scottish Government minister responsible for employment and fair work, Richard Lochhead, reminded Labour of the fact Scotland does not currently have the power to reform overtime laws.
He said: "Employment law is reserved to the UK - perhaps the Labour Party should back Scottish independence and giving Holyrood the powers we need rather than misrepresenting issues like this in an attempt to score points against @theSNP."
Employment law is reserved to the U.K. - perhaps the Labour Party should back Scottish independence and giving Holyrood the powers we need rather than misrepresenting issues like this in an attempt to score points against @theSNP. ...
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