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Oh, the joys of US salary-exempt work. They did bump up the ceiling on the maximum income that can be compensated for overtime, but in practice it is still below the level of most salaried positions.

Hey now, Canada makes that exception too! ;)

Not illegal in the UK:

https://www.gov.uk/overtime-your-rights/overview

There's still a cap on 48 hour a week however:

https://www.gov.uk/overtime-your-rights/compulsory-overtime

and after that the employer must obtain signed consent of the employee, otherwise it is illegal. So the original point of "shaming into OT" stands.

Is it? I suspect that it is a bit more complicated than that.

Overtime of any type for any type of worker is frowned upon by the authorities here in Norway but I suspect that the UK and US are a bit different.