[lbo-talk] Is this legal?

[Michael Hoover]

Lets say someone works as a Custodial Services at certain well known 
university.  Now lets say the higher up have indicated to the workers 
that there will be 2 weeks, in 2 separate months, were the employees 
will have to work for 12 hours a day, for 2 weeks straight (14 days with 
no days off).  Also lets say the higher up made the workers sign a paper 
saying they know the 2 week straight is "mandatory" and if someone 
choices not to comply, they will be out of a job.  Though the starting 
pay for this branch of custodial services is $7.50 and only goes up to 
around $12.00; a majority of the workers are women with kids, and cannot 
afford to speak up.  Question: is it not illegal to make workers go 14 
days straight?
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u.s. code: TITLE 29 > CHAPTER 8 > § 207 
§ 207. Maximum hours
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode29/usc_sec_29_00000207----000-.html

were you to be so fortunate as to live in florida:
The 2005 Florida Statutes
Title XXXI
LABOR Chapter 448

 
448.01  Legal day's work; extra pay.-- 
(1)  Ten hours of labor shall be a legal day's work, and when any person employed to perform manual labor of any kind by the day, week, month or year renders 10 hours of labor, he or she shall be considered to have performed a legal day's work, unless a written contract has been signed by the person so employed and the employer, requiring a less or greater number of hours of labor to be performed daily. 

(2)  Unless such written contract has been made, the person employed shall be entitled to extra pay for all work performed by the requirement of his or her employer in excess of 10 hours' labor daily. 

History.--ss. 1, 2, 3, ch. 1988, 1874; RS 2117, 2118; GS 2641, 2642; RGS 4016, 4017; CGL 5939, 5940; s. 164, ch. 97-103. 

 

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