Montana Attorney General Opinion 15-536

Opinion No. 536 Labor-Eight Hour Day-Retail Stores -Beer-Split Shifts. HELD: All retail stores, including those which retail beer, come under the provisions of the "Eight Hour Day Law." ;'Split shifts" are not prohibited so long as the total hours worked per day do not exceed the total limit fixed in the Act. May 23, 1934. Your letter in relation to the COIl- struction of Chapter 8 of the Laws of the Extraordinary Session of the Twen- ty-Third Legislative Assembly, has been duly receh'ed. This law fixes the hours of iahor in retail stores at. eight hours a day, and a total of not to exceed forty-eight hours per week. In answer to your first inquir~' would addse that all retail stores, in fact any stores including those which are retailing beer, come under the pro- visions of this Act. As to whether "split shifts" can be worked under the "eight hour" provi· sion of this law, i. e., for example, if a person can work two hours before noun and six hours in the afternoon, or four hours in the afternoon and four hours in the evening, as long as the aggregate does not amount to more than eight hours in twenty-four, I can see nothing in the law to prohibit snch splitting of hours provided the total does not exceed the total limit fixed in the Act.