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> "When you provide an employer with unpaid labor..."

Programming jobs don't pay overtime?! With an extra 40 hrs/wk, regardless of the job, the employee should get a sizable compensation, right?

Corporate programmers in the US are usually salaried. Salaried programmers are exempt from overtime thanks to the Department of Labor: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17e_compute...