Do salaried programmers/developers/software/engineers in the US get overtime pay? In Canada's province of Ontario there is a specific exception in labour law saying that these kind of salaried employees are exempt from overtime pay:
If they are an "Exempt" employee, then they don't get overtime. Exempt comes from the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
The US is way behind the curve when compared to other developed countries. I'd like to see the FSLA updated to the same level of protection as the EU Working Time Directive.
http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/tools/srt/coverage_go...
http://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/010285#BK17
(I haven't found definitive answers for other provinces.)
Edit: spelling