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Need to know about Illinois Labor laws. My company makes us work 12 days straight. No Overtime. Is This legal?
I work for a Tradeshow company that makes us work weekends for tradeshows. We are salary employees that work 40 hours per week Monday thru Friday. When shows are scheduled we work an additonal 8 hours per day on Saturday and Sunday. We are then required to work the following week as normal. We don't get paid overtime, and we don't get any additional time off unless we use our vacation time. Is this legal. Can our company force us to work 12 straight days with out time off. All days are at least 8 hour days. I can't see how they can allow us to do that. Management said they can do that because we are salary employees. I can't seem to find the answer on the Illinois state web site for employment issues.
Unfortunately, what your company is doing might be completely legal and in compliance Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations:
http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/fairpay/fs17a_overview.htm
Here are more links that might be useful:
http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/wages/overtimepay.htm
http://www.dol.gov/compliance/guide/index.htm
Some links to legal information.
http://www.nolo.com/
http://www.findlaw.com/
Each of the states have similar laws to mentioned above. However, you might contact OSHA and ask if they could refer you to correct resources that would help you to find correct answer.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of companies who do exactly the same as your current employer.
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