Child Labor Laws

• Office and clerical work, including operation of office machines
• Cashiering, selling, modeling art work, work in advertising departments, window trimming and comparative shopping
• Price marketing and tagging by hand or by machine, assembling orders, packing and shelving
• Bagging and carrying out customers’ orders
• Errand and delivery work by foot, bicycle and public transport
• Cleanup work, including the use of vacuum cleaners and non-commercial floor waxers, and maintenance of grounds, but not including the use of power-driven mowers or cutters
• Kitchen work and other work involved in preparing and serving food and beverages, including the operation of machines and devices used in the performance of such work, such as, dishwashers, toasters, dumbwaiters, popcorn poppers and milkshake blenders
• Cleaning vegetables and fruits, and wrapping, sealing, labeling, weighing, pricing and stocking goods when performed in areas physically separate from areas where meat is prepared for sale, and from outside freezers or meat coolers.

Prohibited hazardous occupations for ALL MINORS under the age of 18:

• Production and storage of explosives
• Coal mining
• Logins and saw milling
• Power-driven woodworking machines
• Exposure to radioactive substances
• Power-driven hoisting apparatuses 
• Power-driven metal-forming, punching and shearing machines
• Slaughtering or meat packing, processing or rending
• Power-driven meat slicer
• Power-driven bakery machines
• Manufacturing brick, tile and kindred products
• Power-driven circular saws, band saws and guillotine shears
• Wrecking demolition and ship breaking operations
• Roofing operations
• Excavation operations

Prohibited hazardous occupations for ALL MINORS 14-15:

• Any manufacturing or mining job
• Processing occupations; filleting fish, dressing poultry, cracking nuts or laundering
• Occupations with duties in workplaces where goods are manufactured, mined or processed
• Public messenger service
• Operating or tending of hoisting apparatus or of any power-driven machinery (other than office machines and machines in retail food service and establishments
• Occupations found and declared hazardous by official designation
• Occupations in connection with:
  1. Transportation of persons or property by rail, highway, air, on water, pipeline or other means
  2. Warehousing and Storage
  3. Communication and Public Utilities
  4. Construction (including repair)
     
     
     
     Except office and sales work in connection with these four categories as long as such work if not performed at the site of the prohibited jobs.
     
      
• Dispensing gasoline or other fuel
• Docks, private or public
• Parking lot attendants
• Car Washes, either hand or machine
• Occupations in billiard or poolrooms
• Any work in a tunnel
• Any work in a boiler or engine room
• Outside window washing
• All work using ladders or scaffolds
• Work in freezers or meat coolers

If you're 14 or 15, you cannot work:

• During school hours.
• Before 6:00 am or after 7:00 pm, except during school vacations when work is permitted until 9:00 pm For businesses covered by federal law, work is permitted from 7:00 am until 9:00 pm from June 1 until Labor Day.
• More than eight hours per day. For businesses covered by federal law, more than 3 hours per day on school days.
• More than 40 hours per week. For businesses covered by federal law, more than 18 hours per week in school weeks, or more than 40 hours per week in non-school weeks.

Exception: An exception is provided for minors employed pursuant to a Work Experience and Career Exploration Program (WECEP).

If you're 16 or 17, you cannot work:

• More than 48 hours per week.
• More than 9 hours per day (or 9 3/5 hours per day for a 5-day work week).
• Before 6 am or after 11:30 PM (1:30 AM if no school the next day).
• Without an 8-hour respite between the end of a shift on one day and the start of work the next day.

Exception: There are no hour limitations during school vacations. There are no limitations on hours or a curfew for 16 and 17 year olds who have left school.