I work salary for a company and was wondering if there is a limit at all on hours for salary employees. From the other threads I've read, I don't seem to have much of a change here, but I have been working 8am - 7pm M - F and 9am - 6pm Sat. and Sun. This is absolutely exhausting and there is absolutely no reason I should be working these hours. Is there anything I can do?

Short of an enforceable contract or CBA prohibiting such hours, the schedule you've been working is not illegal for general occupations.

Can you talk to your manager? Why is the company saying such hours are needed?

Probably no limit. The key thing is that salaried is just a payment method and does not mean much by itself. Limitations on maximum hours worked are not a function of the payment method. They could be a function of the profession (airline pilot, long haul trucker). Minor children employees tend to have some limits on hours worked depending on age. But very few states have generic limitations on hours worked by any employee. I can think of two states with very weak rules, neither of which is OH and neither of which would have considered 75 hour weeks per se to be a big deal. OH is known as a state with very little in the way of state specific labor laws.

In most states it is perfectly legal to work most employees 24x7. This is physcially impossible but not actually a labor law violation.

I have had jobs where 75 hours would have been a pretty slow week.

That's what I figured. It's just crappy because working those extra days, I am no longer getting paid to work, but I am actually paying to get to work.

Maybe I just need a new job.

That's what I figured. It's just crappy because working those extra days, I am no longer getting paid to work, but I am actually paying to get to work.

Maybe I just need a new job.


Sometimes that's what it takes. :(