In United States are we allowed to work all 7 days of the week?

[mads]

A man we know has told us that he works 12 hours every day. Meanwhile, he goes to work again on saturday and sunday 6 hours. He mentioned gets paid for his overtime. He has an engineer. Is it okay according to the labor law of America?

[janyd]

From the US Dept. of Labor FAQ website:
Q.-How many hours per day or per week can an employee work?
A.-The FLSA does not limit the number of hours per day or per week that employees aged 16 years and older can be required to work.
http://www.dol.gov/whd/flsa/faq.htm

The only time that comes in to factor is for jobs that put the public safety at risk. For example, airline pilots & commercial truck drivers have required time allotments when they are not to be in service (for the purposes of getting adequate sleep prior to job performance). As an engineer, he would not fall into this category. I know I made some big paychecks working 80+ hours a week, 7 days a week back in my marketing research days. These were hours that both I & my employer agreed to. I'm sure it's the same with the engineer.

[clem84]

If the guy is an independent contractor (1099 contract) or a salaried employee, then yes, he can work all 7 days of the week. Even if he is a regular hourly employee (W2 contract) he can work over time but they can not MAKE him do it. But since over time is time and half, this guy may really want all that extra money. (Anything over 40 hours a week is over time so this guy is making a bunch of money.)

[teyo]

Of course its ok. Though the company has to authorize paying for overtime, usually they won't. I've had a few jobs where overtime was wide open. I found that at around 65 hrs/wk, my take home doubled. I worked at a film lab in Hollywierd where their overtime rates were real complicated. At some amount of hrs in the week, an employee might work into "Golden Time", 5 times his regular hourly rate. It was about that time a supervisor could be seen running down the hallway to relieve that worker. Those numbers didn't look good in the Monday morning manager meetings.

[tai38]

in the US you can work 168 hours a week and it is legal, there are some state that mandate a day off in 7 #ut they are few, as long as the employee is paid correctly it is legal

[osmont]

Some situations can bend certain rules. Take the military for example. Every single service member is on duty 24/7, 365, holidays or not. The time off they receive is technically a "pass". Not a day off.

[delron72]

If he's willing to do the overtime and the jobs allows for it then I don't see any reason why he couldn't.