I have been looking for Indiana's law or rule for overtime maximum hours per week. I have been working OT everyday include Saturday. I figured out my work hours per week include Saturday which it is total 74 hours. I thought it is too much for me to handle. I believe there is a law or rule of overtime maximum hours per week. Can anyone of you please help me to find it?

Million thanks!

You can't find it because there isn't one for general occupations. Certain jobs may be limited such as interstate trucker, airline pilot, etc. for the public safety. Sorry.

You can't find it because there isn't one for general occupations. Certain jobs may be limited such as interstate trucker, airline pilot, etc. for the public safety. Sorry.

So that mean, they can push me to continue work more than 70 hours per week since I'm working at "general occupation"?

Actually there is a limit for the general public, the most an employer can work an employee is 168 hrs in single week. Hence, 7 days a week times 24 hrs a day = 168 hrs a week. I would not recommend anyone working this numbers of hrs, but this is the max an employee can physically work in a single week.

Actually there is a limit for the general public, the most an employer can work an employee is 168 hrs in single week. Hence, 7 days a week times 24 hrs a day = 168 hrs a week. I would not recommend anyone working this numbers of hrs, but this is the max an employee can physically work in a single week.

Ay! 168 hours in factory. No way! Heh..
I believe there is a time limit for the factory. Seems there isn't any rules for time limit in factory.

Ay! 168 hours in factory. No way! Heh..
I believe there is a time limit for the factory. Seems there isn't any rules for time limit in factory.

Maybe there should be a general limit but there is apparently not. This is a very commonly discussed topic. A variation of this question gets asked several times per week for many years now, and the only supportable answers anyone has been able to come up with are limited exceptions such as employees younger then 18, airline pilots, and truck drivers. Also there are only two states (CA and some state on the East Coast) which have very weak rules on the number of hours which most employees can work in the week.

However, if you can support your claim of a general restriction of the maximum number of hours a factory worker can work in a single week (of less then 168), then please reference your sources. A lot of people would be very interested in an actual source that could verified. There are a lot of very expensive paid reference sources that would need to updated if you could be proven correct.

This does, of course, assume you are being properly compensated for all hours worked.

Seems there isn't any rules for time limit in factory.

No, threre are no legal limits in a factory or in most other work places.

I would not think the limits were needed, but then I have to consider the problem with truckers. But that is different. Truckers WANT to keep driving when it is not safe for them to do so if they are paid by the mile and not by the hour.

No, threre are no legal limits in a factory or in most other work places.

I would not think the limits were needed, but then I have to consider the problem with truckers. But that is different. Truckers WANT to keep driving when it is not safe for them to do so if they are paid by the mile and not by the hour.

Yes, I do think that there are limits needed. Where I work at has been overtime since Feb to now. I was told it will continue to Nov. I can understand that we do want overtime sometime but not everyday include weekend. I knew one guy that worked overtime everyday and got hurt due to lack of focus because he was too tired to work.

got hurt due to lack of focus because he was too tired to work.

That is a problem companies need to watch for, although being tired on the job is not always due to overtime (some folks simply burn the candle at both ends).

Two states have limits on mandatory overtime. In my state, you could work 120 hours this week so long as you did not work more than 40 last week and don't work more than 40 hours next week.

Even those rules can be ignored in some situations.

I don't generally mention this one unless it appears applicable because it's very, very state specific and the limitations on airline pilots and truck drivers are Federal.

In a FEW states, nurses are also limited in the number of hours they can work. I can't say for sure that there are no others, but those are the only ones I know for certain about.

As far as actual statutes that limit the general workforce, CA and ME are the only two states that have seen fit to implement them. I do not disagree that more should - however, until they do so, the limit expressed above by one poster of 168 hours will have to stand.

No, threre are no legal limits in a factory or in most other work places.

I would not think the limits were needed, but then I have to consider the problem with truckers. But that is different. Truckers WANT to keep driving when it is not safe for them to do so if they are paid by the mile and not by the hour.



My husband works in a paper mill and he has been working 12 hour days for the past week. 3pm - 3am - yesterday they told him that he would have to work from 7am-7pm tomorrow. So is it ok for a company to ask someone to work from 3pm-3am and then right away again at 7am the same day?!?!? When is a person supposed to rest / sleep?

Whether it is "okay" or not is a matter of opinion. Clearly many of us here think that the law ought to provide limits. But if you are asking whether it is legal, yes, it is.

Whether it is "okay" or not is a matter of opinion. Clearly many of us here think that the law ought to provide limits. But if you are asking whether it is legal, yes, it is.

I think it is nuts to have someone work twelve hours, take four hours off (given travel time back home and back to work, darn little time for sleep).

Yep, it is legal. Most companies do not feed their employees a regular diet of hours like that. It does happen, obviously, and there are problems when it does happen (unhappy employees = higher turnover = lower productivity).