AK · 3 rules · reviewed 2026-07
Alaska scheduling laws
Alaska has straightforward daily overtime past 8 hours — and, unusually, a formal escape hatch. A Flexible Work Hour Plan filed with the Department of Labor waives the daily trigger up to 10 hours, which is what makes four-day, ten-hour weeks workable here.
This is a reference, not legal advice. Every rule below links to its primary source — a statute, an ordinance, or the enforcing agency — so you can read the law rather than a summary of a summary. Consult counsel before relying on any of it.
All 3 rules below apply regardless of industry. Most US predictive-scheduling law is municipal, so where a rule comes from a city ordinance its name says so — a company can easily have one location covered and two not.
Daily overtime past 8 hours
AS 23.10.0601.5x the regular rate for all hours worked over 8 in a day as well as over 40 in a week. Unlike Nevada's, the daily trigger is not conditioned on the employee's wage rate.
In Weekwright: MAX_HOURS_PER_DAY at 8 with WARNING severity flags every shift that crosses into premium territory at create and move time, so a 9-hour shift is a deliberate decision with a visible cost rather than a discovery on the payroll export.
Flexible Work Hour Plan waives the daily trigger
AS 23.10.060(d)Employer and employee may agree in writing to a Flexible Work Hour Plan — commonly four 10-hour days — and file it with the Department of Labor. Once certified, the 8-hour daily trigger is waived up to 10 hours; beyond 10 in a day or 40 in a week, overtime resumes. Participation must be voluntary and not a condition of employment, and the department responds within five working days.
In Weekwright: Once a plan is certified, move MAX_HOURS_PER_DAY from 8 to 10 and keep it BLOCKING — the boundary that now matters is 10, and a rule at 8 would drown you in warnings for shifts that are lawfully premium-free. The change is audit-logged with who made it and when.
No general meal or rest break mandate for adults
Alaska requires breaks for minors under 18 but imposes no meal or rest period requirement on adult employees. If your team takes breaks, that is your policy rather than a statutory floor — which does not make the records less useful.
In Weekwright: Break punches with a paid/unpaid flag still drive the payroll export's deductions, so an unpaid break your own policy grants is deducted correctly whether or not a statute compelled it. Per-member rules cover the minors who do have a statutory floor.
Primary sources
Read the law itself. These are the statutes, ordinances and agencies the rules above are taken from.
Alaska by industry
The same statutes read for one vertical, with the scheduling patterns that vertical actually runs.
Other states
Again, because it matters: this is not legal advice. It is a reading aid over primary sources, maintained by a software company rather than a law firm. It surfaces obvious gaps so you can act on them — it does not tell you whether a specific ordinance applies to your specific business. Consult counsel for that. Found something out of date? hello@weekwright.com — a correction to a primary source is welcome from anyone, customer or not.
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