Posted On: January 20, 2010
How Many Hours per Day or Per Week Can a Person Work?
Tom works for a company in Brooklyn that is struggling financially. Tom is being asked to work 15 to 18 hours a day and also on weekends. He is exhausted and his wife called and wanted to know if there was a limit on how many hours a person can be asked to work.
She was amazed when I told her that there is no limit. The law does not provide any limit on how many hours a person can work in a day or a week. The only real regulation that controls are the overtime laws and these do not limit how long you work, it just provides for extra pay for long hours. Under the New York and Federal overtime rules, a person must be paid time and half for each hour worked in excess of 40 hours per week.
