how many hours can a employee work per day by law?

Answer 1

There are no laws on how many hours you can work, it's illegal if your employer does not pay you for them.
Is your employer going to allow you to work 18 hours a day though? It's not practical in most cases.

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Answer 2

Depends on the person, where I am you can only be scheduled for 16 hours but you can work as many as you want. The thing is you still have to have breaks and you would have to take at least a twenty minute lunch per shift.
To be scheduled for more than 16 hours and be required to be to work in less than 8 hours after your last shift is called a swing shift and is against labor laws. But as I stated before the employee can work what they want. But the employer better watch his butt if the employee decides to file a labor dispute saying they made him work.

As stated above most fire-people work 24hrs on and 48hrs off.

All business in IL are required to have labor law sheets posted for all employees to view.

Answer 3

There are no Federal laws on this, and I know of no state laws, although there may be some out there. Unless there is such a law somewhere, the answer would be 24 hours.

Depending on how you define work, that might be more common than you think. Firemen, for example, often work under schedules that require them to be actively working part of a day and then present at the Fire House for the entire day, and even though they may be sleeping part of this time, they are still being paid.

In times of emergencies, I'm sure many emergency service workers pulled 24-hour shifts. Although probably not too common, having someone work a double shift in a plant on 12-hour shift schedule does happen.

I'm sure there are many more examples.

Answer 4

Normally, 8 hours a day, but if you are an exempt employee on salary, you may be required to work more hours without overtime pay. For non-exempt employees, anything over 40 hours a week is considered overtime and gets billed at time and a half. I used to be an exempt employee and would work 12-14 hours days and on weekends at times if there was a special project or emergency situation which required my presence. There are no official numbers on the books, but if you do work long hours as an exempt employee, it would be customary and even very humane on the employer's part to give you comp time so that you can recharge your batteries. No employer wants to see burned out employees trying to do a job if they can't stay fully awake and alert on the job.

Answer 5

Under the Dept. Of Labor,the (FLSA) Fair Labor Standards Act,
does not limit the hours per day,or per week the person aged 16 & older can work. However,it may be regulated by the state,and finally by your contract negotiations between your employer and
union representative. hope this helps

Answer 6

I am not sure there is a law for how many hours a day, but if you work more than 40 hours a week you are entitled to overtime except if you are exempt. You might should check with your local labor dept.

Answer 7

25 =)

Answer 8

no more than 24 ! law of physics

Answer 9

i belive its 16 hours per day....leaving 8 hours for rest i belive is the old rule