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Child Labor Laws

Hi everyone! 

I hope you all had a great summer. I am excited for the 2019-2020 school year! I'm sure you are all excited as well. While I know that labor law might not be of great interest to many, this is a big passion of mine and I hope whoever reading posts from my blog finds the information intriguing and helpful. 

With that, we are going back to our monthly informative posts about labor law! Our first post for the 2019-2020 school year is going to be about child labor laws. 

Child labor laws are regulations mandated by the state and federal government in regards to working minors. Compliance of child labor laws by firms hiring anyone under 18 is important. 

So, what exactly is the law? Let's look at child labor laws at the federal level first: 

Children under the age of 14 are usually not allowed to work unless the workplace falls under a few exceptions. I will pull up a neat list of exceptions and link the source where I got it from below. These exceptions are: 

  • being employed by parents in non-hazardous occupations,
  • working as actors or performers,
  • delivering newspapers, or
  • working as homeworkers in the making of wreaths made from natural elements
  • performing certain agricultural work.
 Link: https://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/wage-and-hour-laws/child-labor-laws/ 

Children are also usually limited in the number of hours they can work and cannot work in environments that are deemed to be too dangerous or hazardous by the Department of Labor. 

At the state level, regulations vary. If you want to see the child labor laws that pertain to California, here is the link: https://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/wage-and-hour-laws/state-wage-and-hour-laws/california/child-labor-laws/

I really recommend checking it out as a lot of us are working part time jobs now! 

Well, that's it for today's post. I hope you found this informative and if you are working a part time job, please do read up on your rights to prevent workplace abuses.

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