Unfair work place, are there rules/laws that business owners must follow in the state of virginia?

Perfectly legal. Get over yourself and find another job.

IF you work over 40 hours a week, depending on the job, or 80 hours a pay period, you have to be paid overtime pay. Also, you must get a half hour off for lunch and two fifteen minute breaks, for every eight hours worked. BTW - All this needs to be posted in a common area, like near your time clock. As for the yelling, nothing wrong with that legally. It is his business and he can yell. He can't hit you or use racial slurs, but he can call you an incompetent donkey if he wishes.

At $16000.00 per year you don't qualify under federal law to be overtime exempt. You must make at least minimum wage which $7.25/hour before taxes for all hours in a work week up to 40 hours. For any hours in excess of 40 hours in a work week you must be paid at a rate of 1.5 times your normal hourly rate. If you aren't making that much per hour contact your state's department of labor.

The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour before taxes. It sounds to me like you are working 43 hours a week (seven hours each day five days a week and eight on Sundays). You should be getting paid three hours at time-and-a-half each week because you are entitled to receive time-and-a-half for hours over 40 per week. This comes to $290 for the 40 hours at the regular rate and $32.63 for the three hours at overtime, a total of $322.63. There are not any laws prohibiting business owners from yelling at employees or giving them unfair hours like those you described. You might want to ask if you could bring a sandwich or something that you could eat on Sunday when business is slow. Good luck.

Yelling is not illegal. neither is requiring you to keep the shop open on Sundays. However, the fact that you don't make minimum wage, even in a salaried position, is illegal. Contact your state's dept. of labor.