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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son started a summer job at a sleepaway camp in rural Maryland. It doesn't pay much (less than $400 a week). He is 18, so a legal adult. They gave him his schedule today have scheduled him for 14 hour days. I've given him a pep talk to speak up and say that 14 hour days 5 days a week is unreasonable. [b]It's a religiously linked summer sleepaway camp [/b]so I assume it qualifies for various exemptions to things like minimum wage, but is there anything in statute or regs that he can point to?  He doesn't want to quit. He just wants to work a reasonable amount of hours each day. While the pay is peanuts, it's not about the money. It's about exploitation. Camp leadership says they are short staffed. That's not my son's problem to solve. If anything the 40-50 hours a week he is willing to work should be an enormous help. But asking him to consistently work 70 hour weeks seems crazy. My son is going to speak to the camp director tomorrow. Beyond talking about the unreasonableness are there Any legal or regulatory arguments he can make? [/quote]

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