Florida Statute 448.1 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

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Title XXXI
LABOR

Chapter 448
GENERAL LABOR REGULATIONS

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F.S. 448.01

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.

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Cases Citing Statute 448.01

Total Results: 2

Quaker Oats Co. v. Jewell

818 So. 2d 574, 2002 WL 463578

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 28, 2002 | Docket: 2490542

Cited 14 times | Published

overtime wages. Count I alleged a violation of section 448.01 claiming overtime pay for work in excess of

Posely v. Eckerd Corp.

433 F. Supp. 2d 1287, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33094, 2006 WL 1366737

District Court, S.D. Florida | Filed: May 16, 2006 | Docket: 2397293

Cited 10 times | Published

worked at a work party in excess of ten hours. Section 448.01, Fla. Stat., provides: (1) Ten hours of labor