Ontario Superior Court: Overtime Pay

Weekends And Holidays Dept: Lilliane Namukasa says she came to Canada in March 2008 to work as a live-in caregiver for a family in Brampton, Ont. Her employment contract called for her to be paid $427.50 a week in regular pay, minus $55 weekly to cover her room and board, plus $17 an hour for any overtime, according to her statement of claim. Lilliane Namukasa says she worked 15.5-hour days, seven days a week, for far below minimum wage at a home on this block in Brampton, Ont. Google Street View, according to CBC. Namukasa, 24, says she toiled seven days a week caring for her boss's children and cleaning the family's home, and got no vacation or overtime pay and a Ugandan nanny who says she was paid a mere $100 a month over two years is suing her former employer for $195,000, in a case her supporters say highlights rampant mistreatment of low-income and migrant workers. But instead, her employer a mother of two young boys who herself often worked overtime and on weekends and holidays paid just $100 a month and forced her to work 15 -hour days, says the lawsuit, filed last month in Ontario Superior Court. As reported in the news.
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