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Along with vacation pay, overtime is another area of the Employment Standards Act that can be confusing and can get employers in trouble. 

Entitlement to Overtime Pay

Most employees are entitled to be paid overtime – which is 1.5 times their normal pay rate – for every hour they work in excess of 44 hours in a week. 

Some employees are exempt, including most of the regulated professions, many employees in healthcare jobs, IT workers and managers among others. For a full list of job types that are not entitled to overtime see the Ministry of Labour’s Guidance.

The manager exemption can be a tricky one and we will address that in Part 2 next week.