12 hour work day

[NeedAdvice290]

A Herndon, Va company is hiring programmers to work 12-hour days, for a 6 day work week. Is this legal?

 

[fairisfair]

um. . . yes why wouldn't it be?? I am assuming these workers are adults?

http://www.ewin.com/articles/restper.htm

One would think that there would be many state labor codes which restrict the number of hours that an employee could be forced to work in a workweek. The only state in the country with a maximum number of hours for the average employee is California -- 72 hours. Most other states do have some regulations regarding maximum hours for child labor, or specific industries such as trucking, farming and agriculture, and a few for health care, but only California has addressed the problem for non-specific occupations.

Federal law regarding maximum hours is found at Sec. 7.(29 U.S.C. 207) and really only addresses the fact that all nonexempt employees working a maximum of 40 hours must be paid overtime.

 

[Beth3]

A Herndon, Va company is hiring programmers to work 12-hour days, for a 6 day work week. Is this legal?

Sure. Nobody is forced to accept these jobs if they don't want to work those hours.

 

[Gadfly]

I agree with Beth.

 

[cbg]

There is no law in any state limiting the number of hours an employee can work daily; no states that limit the number of hours that can be worked in a week (though one state, not Virginia, prohibits the employer from disciplining or terming an employee who refuses to work over 72 hours per week); and only one state (and that state is not Virginia) that limits the number of hours in a two-week period.