Province looking at overtime exemption

The provincial government will be consulting people in the north about whether a law that exempts northern employees from earning overtime pay for extra hours worked needs to be changed.

The Northern Exemption law, enacted in 1955, exempts employees working north of Township 62 from the hours of work and overtime provisions of the Labour Standards Act. The communities of La Ronge, Creighton and Uranium City and a 10-kilometre area around each community are not covered by the exemption.