Is there a law that states how many hours a day a company can work a person? I work for a company that once you get to work you are there until they say when you can go home. My hours are 6 am to 2:30 pm, but if they want you to stay until 4;30, 5:30 or 10:00 the next day you have to stay. You never know when you are going home some days until minutes before you leave. Is this legal in Oklahoma?
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gennie

It is legal in all 50 states, with a very few, industry specific exceptions. Unless you have a bona fide contract that specifically says otherwise or are in one of the very few industries where there is a public safety factor involved (airline pilot, truck driver, in a very few states nursing), your employer decides what hours you work and has no legal obligation to release you when your shift is over.

That is what I figured, but to me it would seem a safety factor at some point because people get tired as the hours go by. I haven't been here long enough at this point to have experienced more than 13 hours in a day, but some of the people I work with say they have had to work for 24 hours before they got to go home. I don't look forward to that day. We wear steel toed shoes and walk on concert floors and some days I just need to get off of my feet. 24 hours I can't even imagine...Thanks for your quick response.
gennie in Oklahoma :)

Just for curiosity's sake, what type of work do you do?

Nothing that would be considered a safety hazard. I work in quality as a lead person in manufacturing. I ask this original question because some of the people that work for me wanted to know if they had to work the overtime and I wanted the honest reply to the question so I came here.
Thanks for the reply...
Gennie :)