(1) 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.
(2) 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.
History.—ss. 1, 2, 3, ch. 1988, 1874; RS 2117, 2118; GS 2641, 2642; RGS 4016, 4017; CGL 5939, 5940; s. 164, ch. 97-103.
Structure Florida Statutes
Chapter 448 - General Labor Regulations
Part I - Terms and Conditions of Employment (Ss. 448.01-448.111)
448.01 - Legal day’s work; extra pay.
448.04 - Penalty for officer or agent violating s. 448.03.
448.045 - Wrongful combinations against workers.
448.05 - Seats to be furnished for employees in stores; penalty.
448.07 - Wage rate discrimination based on sex prohibited.
448.075 - Employment discrimination on basis of sickle-cell trait prohibited.
448.076 - Mandatory screening or testing for sickle-cell trait prohibited.
448.08 - Attorney’s fees for successful litigants in actions for unpaid wages.
448.09 - Unauthorized aliens; employment prohibited.
448.095 - Employment eligibility.
448.103 - Employee’s remedy; relief.
448.104 - Attorney’s fees and costs.
448.109 - Notification of the state minimum wage.
448.110 - State minimum wage; annual wage adjustment; enforcement.
448.111 - Evidentiary standards for actions of a business during an emergency.