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07/17/2024
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Summary of differences between federal and state regulations
The federal law does not spell out actual hours that must be worked in a work day. Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the workweek ordinarily includes all the time during which an employee is required to be:
- On the employer's premises,
- On duty, or
- At a prescribed work place.
Florida statues state that ten hours is a legal day's work for any employee hired to perform manual labor, unless there is written contract stating other conditions.
State
Contact
Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation
Regulations
Florida Statute Title XXXI, Chapter 448 – Legal day's work; extra pay (§448.01)
- Ten hours of labor shall be a legal day's work, and when any person employed to perform manual labor of any kind by the day, week, month or year renders 10 hours of labor, he or she shall be considered to have performed a legal day's work, unless a written contract has been signed by the person so employed and the employer, requiring a less or greater number of hours of labor to be performed daily.
- Unless such written contract has been made, the person employed shall be entitled to extra pay for all work performed by the requirement of his or her employer in excess of 10 hours' labor daily.
www.flsenate.gov/laws/statutes/2010/448.01
Federal
Contact
The Department of Labor is the federal agency that monitors hours worked.
Regulations
U.S. labor regulations for hours worked can be found in CFR 29:
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