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My manager keeps scheduling me to take our clients out for lunches and dinners, where I’m expected to represent our company, schmooze and show appreciation to them so we can get or keep their business. This happens three or four times a month. He says these meals don’t count as working hours and views them as a perk, because the company pays the bill, so I’m getting a free meal. But I’m wondering if I’m entitled to overtime for attending these client meals because they feel like work to me.

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Thuraya S. A. Lutfi , lawyer, Lutfi Law , Mississauga

In Ontario, when employees are expected to accompany clients to meals to advance

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