Is it legal to work your employees 7 days a week?

Depends on the state, I’m sure. Labor and employment laws vastly differ from state to state.

Remember that most employers don’t really care if they keep employees – they can fire them with the knowledge that 3 other people will be there tomorrow to apply for the job. And this is especially true at the minimum-wage (or nearby) level.

Check with your states labour laws, but in most cases yes, just make sure over time is paid correctly.
The only time you can refuse overtime is if you can prove that it will be unsafe.

Laughs, grow up on a farm. We had our 40 hours in by Wednesday.

That’s different, @Adirondackwannabe.

How so, slapped in the face by a shitty tail, kicked in the back by another cow, sweating your ass of in a hay mow over 100 degrees, and what ever piece of fun.

Because it was your own personal stuff. You had a stake in it. You also had a say in it, to a certain extent—the more so as you got older.

Rarely. I don’t know where the consequences for such behavior on the part of an employer lead in actuality, but I have a strong opinion on where they SHOULD lead, and that is a grey rock federal prison. As for exemptions from the regulations, you can bet that it is the most demeaning, backbreaking and ill paid jobs in the most impovershed depressed regions where claims are made that such measures are necessary.
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It is in Missouri.
I worked in a factory and we were required to work 12 eight hour days on, 2 days off for months on end, at the company’s whim. You have to be properly compensated with time and ½, double time, and double time and ½.
40 hours 1
40+ hours 1.5x
7th day 2x
Holiday 2.5x

Edit:
Your choices were:
Work
Bid to a different department (possibly different shift)
Be terminated.

If you were scheduled for vacation the Friday before, or the Monday after, a mandatory work weekend, you were exempt. When the employees got wise to that, the company first limited it to 2 people on vacation per department on a given day. When that didn’t suit, they just claimed that Monday had never given exemption.

Oh, and those “Employee Handbooks”? They’re the ways an employer can hang you, not mutually assured guidelines. And that was from a corporate employment attorney in Missouri.

Yes, it is legal. And often it is part of the job.

I had friends who worked on the Alaskan Pipeline. They worked 7–12’s for 8 weeks between leave. Made an ungodly amount of money, plus got room and board.

People on oil rigs will work 7–12s for weeks at a time.

I used to go to school 7 days a week so I guess it’s legal ~

But you’re in Vietnam.

For some jobs it is not legal, no matter where in the country (I believe truck driving, but @SQUEEKY2 can probably weigh in with laws about that). Check your state’s Department of Labor website to see what the laws are for overtime and hours in your state.