[Sylvanfan]

Well I don't know if this is the best of times to be challenging an employer for more money. Jobs are going to get real scarce here in the new year me thinks.

Also keep in mind...companies who violate rules like that could have cooked the books a bit. Years ago the guys I went to work for challenged our old boss over unpaid over time. Turns out some so called "Bonuses" he had handed out were just enough to more or less cover the unpaid overtime for his employees according to his payroll records that he submitted to the labour board in B.C. If you're going to challenge this you'll want to make sure you have a complete set of your records and take that to the labour board and have them help you review that. In a battle of word verses word...employees tend to lose.