ALABAMA - Part III - Wages, Hours, Child Labor -- BNA State Labor Laws Section 10:311 --
Maximum Hours - No general provision. Restrictions apply to children, and vary according to the age of the child. See Child Labor, p. 348:601 for specific requirements.
Mandatory Time Off/Day of Rest - No minor, apprentice, or servant may be required to perform any labor on Sunday, except customary domestic duties or works of charity; merchants and shopkeepers, druggists excepted, may not keep stores open on Sunday. Certain other specific operations exempted.
Required Meal/Rest Periods - No worker who is 14 or 15 years of age may be employed for more than 5 continuous hours without an interval of at least 30 minutes for a meal or rest period. Any meal or rest period of less than 30 minutes is not considered to interrupt a continuous period of work.
Special Occupations - Truckdrivers: 10-hour day followed by 8-hour rest, plus certain provisions; special provisions apply in adverse weather. State Law Enforcement Officers: 1 1/2 times regular pay or compensatory time for hours in excess of 8-hour day or 40 hour week.
The above is all that is under Alabama State Labor Law, which basically means that if you are an adult, not a member of a union or have an employment agreement, the employer can work you to death without meal breaks, etc.
So now you know why the South doesn't cotton to unions! Employers in the South would have to give their employees some rights for heaven's sake if they were unionized!