We don't have the exception clause here in BC; every employee is entitled to overtime.
If you aren't unionised, it's important however to keep overtime and other such laws in context as they apply to your entire job. In other words, if you want your employer to be a stickler with regards to paying you for that 41st hour, they're probably going to be a stickler with other things too, like ensuring you take 15 minute breaks, a half hour lunch maximum. Or even better, making sure you never work a minute of overtime again; sticking you with the worst possible tasks and projects.
It's give and take.
Are there employers that basically break the law. Of course. But there are a myriad of other trade offs that need to be considered from wages to promotions to perks. If everything after all that is still a raw deal, leave.
If you do work for a union though, my condolences.
We don't have the exception clause here in BC; every employee is entitled to overtime.
If you aren't unionised, it's important however to keep overtime and other such laws in context as they apply to your entire job. In other words, if you want your employer to be a stickler with regards to paying you for that 41st hour, they're probably going to be a stickler with other things too, like ensuring you take 15 minute breaks, a half hour lunch maximum. Or even better, making sure you never work a minute of overtime again; sticking you with the worst possible tasks and projects.
It's give and take.
Are there employers that basically break the law. Of course. But there are a myriad of other trade offs that need to be considered from wages to promotions to perks. If everything after all that is still a raw deal, leave.
If you do work for a union though, my condolences.