Florida Statutes
Fla. Stat. § 448.01 (2025)
Legal day’s work; extra pay.
✓ 2025 Florida Statutes — current through the 2025 Regular Session
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
FL-LEGleg.state.fl.us
JustiaFla. Statutes
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
448.01 Legal day’s work; extra pay.—
(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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2002–2022 · leading case: Posely v. Eckerd Corp., 433 F. Supp. 2d 1287 (S.D. Fla. 2006).
Posely v. Eckerd Corp., 433 F. Supp. 2d 1287 (S.D. Fla. 2006). “, the right to “extra *1311 pay” is indistinguishable from the remedy for an employer’s failure to provide “extra pay”, the undersigned focuses exclusively upon the vagueness inquiry and does not reach the question of whether Fla. Stat. § 448.01 would otherwise provide a private…”
Quaker Oats Co. v. Jewell, 818 So. 2d 574 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002). “Section 448.01, Florida Statutes (1997) provides: (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…”
Bogacki v. Buccaneers Ltd. P'ship, 370 F. Supp. 2d 1201 (M.D. Fla. 2005). “§§ 201-219 , and the Florida Whis-tleblower Act (FWA), Fla. Stat. §§ 448.01-448.105 . Plaintiff alleges that Defendant failed to pay her overtime wages and fired her in retaliation after Plaintiff complained that she was not being paid proper overtime wages.”
Williams v. Jacobs Eng'g Grp. Inc. (M.D. Fla. 2022). “In his Second Amended Complaint, Williams alleges ten counts, with half the counts brought against Jacobs and half against OMI: • Count 1: Race Discrimination Under the Florida Civil Rights Act (FCRA) (Jacobs) • Count 2: Race Discrimination Under the FCRA (OMI) • Count 3:…”
Pastrana v. Level Up Fitness LLC (S.D. Fla. 2021). “§ 448.01 , et seq. (“FMWA”), and the Miami-Dade County Wage Theft Prevention Act, Miami- Dade County Code of Ordinances Chapter 22-5(1) (“Ordinance”).”
— 448.01(2) — 1 case
Posely v. Eckerd Corp., 433 F. Supp. 2d 1287 (S.D. Fla. 2006). “, the right to “extra *1311 pay” is indistinguishable from the remedy for an employer’s failure to provide “extra pay”, the undersigned focuses exclusively upon the vagueness inquiry and does not reach the question of whether Fla. Stat. § 448.01 would otherwise provide a private…”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.