Getting Started
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If you are 14 or 15 years old, here is information you should know.
The Federal Government has restrictions on the types of work you can do. Here are some examples of jobs you are permitted to work:
Delivering newspapers
Baby-sitting
Acting or performing in motion pictures, television, theater and radio
In a business solely owned or operated by your parents
Farming if owned or operated by your parents
Office
Grocery store
Retail
Restaurant
Move theater
Baseball park
Amusement park
Gasoline service station
Parents are prohibited from employing their children in manufacturing, mining, or any other occupation declared hazardous by the Secretary of Labor.
You may not work at the following jobs:
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
In addition, you may not work at any job or occupation declared hazardous by the Secretary of Labor:
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
Manufacturing brick, tile, and related products
Power-driven circular saws, band saws, and guillotine shears
Wrecking, demolition, and ship-breaking operations
Roofing operations and all work on or about a roof
Excavation operations
There are some exemptions for apprentice/student-learner programs in some of these hazardous occupations.
When you are 14 or 15, you can work outside school hours:
After 7 a.m. and until 7 p.m. -- except from June 1 through Labor Day, when you can work until 10 p.m.
You may work no more than:
4 hours on a school day
18 hours in a school week
8 hours on a non-school day
44 hours in non-school week
6 days on one week
