Tennessee Work Hours and Reporting Policy
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5 hours is the maximum time of work admissible without a break (of 30 minutes minimum). The total hours of work per day, including over time, cannot exceed 10 hours a day. Overtime by any employee cannot exceed 54 hours in a quarter. Overtime work should be paid with twice the rate of wage usually paid to the worker.
Legally, your employer can't make you work more than 48 hours a week, including overtime. If they want you to work more than that, your employer has to ask you to opt out of the 48-hour limit. Find out more about the maximum weekly working time limit.
You shouldn't have to work more than an average of 8 hours in each 24-hour period, averaged out over 17 weeks. You can work more than 8 hours a day as long as the average over 17 weeks is no more than 8. Your employer can't ask you to opt out of this limit.
Tennessee Overtime RulesNo laws limit the number of hours an employee can work in a week. Federal law provides 2 years to make a claim for unpaid overtime, 3 years if employer intentionally violated the law.
As per the ILO Convention, no employee shall be allowed to work continuously for more than 5 hours without a rest of at least half-an-hour. Therefore, the normal working hours per week do not include intervals for rest such as lunch-breaks.
There are no state laws regulating scheduling. An employer can schedule an employee to work as many or as few hours as the employer feels necessary. If an employee is scheduled to work six (6) hours consecutively, a proper break is required, and overtime rules may apply.
Overtime Laws in Tennessee Federal law regulates that anything more than 40 hours worked in a single workweek is subject to one and a half times the employee's normal pay rate for overtime pay. In general, exempt employees are not eligible for overtime compensation.
You can't work more than 48 hours a week on average - normally averaged over 17 weeks. This law is sometimes called the 'working time directive' or 'working time regulations'. You can choose to work more by opting out of the 48-hour week. If you're under 18, you can't work more than 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week.
For adult employees, there is no legal limit to the number of hours that one can work per week, but the Fair Labor Standards Act dictates standards for overtime pay in both the private and public sector.
