Workers under the age of 14 may ONLY be employed:
- By their parents or guardians (except in manufacturing, mining and hazardous occupations).
- In agriculture or farming with written consent of their parents or guardians or on a farm or in a
home owned by their parents or guardians or on a farm where the parent or guardian is also employed.
- In the delivery or collection of newspapers, periodicals or circulars.
- In casual, community, non-revenue raising, uncompensated activity, (such as religious and charitable
volunteer work).
- As an actor, model or performer.
- As a legislative aide.
- In casual domestic work at a person's home.
- As an official or referee for a non-profit athletic organization. A minor who is under the age of
14 however, may not officiate at adult events or activities.
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14 & 15 year old workers may NOT work in the occupations listed here.
- Communications or public utilities jobs;
- Construction or repair jobs;
- Driving a motor vehicle or helping a driver;
- Manufacturing and mining occupations;
- Power-driven machinery or hoisting apparatus other than typical office machines;
- Processing occupations;
- Public messenger jobs;
- Transporting of persons or property;
- Workrooms where products are manufactured, mined or processed;
- Warehousing and storage.
14 & 15 year old workers may NOT perform the following jobs in retail and service
businesses:
- Baking;
- Boiler or engine room work, whether in or about;
- Cooking, except with gas or electric grilles that do not involve cooking over an open flame and with
deep fat fryers that are equipped with and utilize devices that automatically lower and raise the
baskets in and out of the hot grease or oil;
- Freezers or meat coolers work;
- Loading or unloading goods on or off trucks, railcars or conveyors;
- Meat processing area work;
- Maintenance or repair of a building or its equipment;
- Operating, setting up, adjusting, cleaning, oiling, or repairing power-driven food slicers, grinders,
choppers or cutters and bakery mixers;
- Outside window washing, or work standing on a window sill, ladder, scaffold or similar equipment;
- Warehouse work, except office and clerical work.
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14 & 15 year old workers CAN work in retail stores, food service establishments and gasoline service
stations. Some of the jobs You can do include:
- Bagging and carrying out customer's orders;
- Cashiering, selling, modeling, art work, advertising, window trimming, or comparative shopping;
- Cleaning fruits and vegetables;
- Clean-up work and Grounds Maintenance - 14 & 15 year old workers may use vacuums and floor waxers,
however they cannot use power-driven mowers, cutters, and trimmers (including string trimmers);
16 & 17 year old workers can use power mowers and string trimmers, however
they may not use chain saws and string trimmers equipped with brush and wood cutting blades.
- Cleaning of cooking equipment, including the filtering, transporting and dispensing of oil and grease, but
only when the surfaces of the equipment and liquids do not exceed 100° F;
- Delivery work by foot, bicycle, or public transportation;
- Kitchen and other work in preparing and serving food and drinks, but not cooking or baking
(see hazardous jobs);
- Office and clerical work;
- Pricing and tagging goods, assembling orders, packing, or shelving;
- Pumping gas, cleaning and polishing cars and trucks (but the young worker cannot repair cars, use
garage lifting rack, or work in pits);
- Wrapping, weighing, pricing, stocking any goods as long as the young worker does not work where
meat is being prepared and does not work in freezers or meat coolers.
- Exemptions from some of the hazardous occupations apply for 14 and 15 year old student learners
enrolled in vocational agriculture programs when certain requirements are met. Minors aged 14 and 15
who hold certificates of completion of training under a 4-H or vocational agriculture program may work
outside school hours on equipment for which they have been trained.
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Hazardous Occupations
18 is the minimum age for employment in any non-agricultural occupation that is declared as hazardous.
Note that Parents employing their own children are subject to these same rules. Some of these hazardous
occupations have definitive exemptions.
- Manufacturing and storing of explosives.
- Driving a motor vehicle and being an outside helper on a motor vehicle.
- Coal mining.
- Logging and sawmilling.
- Power-driven woodworking machines.
- Exposure to radioactive substances.
- Power-driven hoisting apparatus.
- Power-driven metal-forming, punching, and shearing machines.
- Mining, other than coal mining.
- Meat packing or processing (including the use of power-driven meat slicing machines).
- Power-driven bakery machines.
- Power-driven paper product machines, including scrap paper balers and paper box compactors.
- Manufacturing brick, tile, and related products.
- Power-driven circular saws, band saws, and guillotine shears.
- Wrecking, demolition, and shipbreaking operations.
- Roofing operations and all work on or about a roof.
- Excavation operations.
For a complete listing of prohibited machines, see "Child Labor Bulletin No. 101" available from the
United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division in Salt Lake City, UT, 84101, (801) 524-5706.
Federal Child Labor Laws
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