Anyone know the law related to working a temporary position (for an event) where you work 6 days and ~80 hours when it comes to OT, but the company workweek is in the middle of that period? Friend got ripped off, but are being told it’s legal.

Long story short: they worked over 80 hours over a six day period. The company's official workweek has been and is Thursday-Thursday, basically. As such, conveniently for them, the checks were split up into two ~40 hour checks – instead of an 80+ hour check with lots of OT pay. They called the state's labor line, to which ended up getting routed to some national help-line, where they were informed that since the company has ~always had the same workweek (they didn't change it for the event, in other words), then it's legal and there's nothing you can do about that. Such is the “luck” of when they started the event/working and so on. Seems to me such a law/rule would be ripe for exploitation. And, as we can see here, it is – coincidence or not. Anyone have any insight andor resources?