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Hiring Young Workers
Agricultural Jobs
If you own or operate a farm or other type of agricultural business, the following child labor rules apply to you.
- You may hire a worker who is 16 years or older for any work, whether hazardous or not, for unlimited hours.
- You may hire a worker who is 14 or 15 years old for any nonhazardous work outside of school hours.
- You may hire a worker who is 12 or 13 years old for any nonhazardous work outside of school hours if the child's parents work on the same farm or if you have their written consent.
- You may hire a worker who is 10 or 11 years old if you've been granted a waiver by the U.S. Department of Labor to employ the youngster as a hand harvest laborer for no more than eight weeks in any calendar year.
- If you own or operate the farm, you can hire your own children to do any kind of work on the farm, regardless of their ages.
Nonagricultural Jobs
If you seek to hire a youngster for work that is nonagricultural, the following rules apply:
- You may hire a worker who is 18 years or older for any job, hazardous or not, for unlimited hours.
- A worker who will do job-related driving on public roads must be at least 17 years old, must have a valid driver's license, and must not have any moving violations.
- You may hire a worker who is 16 or 17 years old for any nonhazardous job, for unlimited hours.
- You may hire a worker who is 14 or 15 years old outside school hours in various nonmanufacturing, nonmining, and nonhazardous jobs, but some restrictions apply. The teen cannot work more than three hours on a school day, 18 hours in a school week, eight hours on a nonschool day, or 40 hours in a nonschool week. Also, the work cannot begin before 7 a.m. or end after 7 p.m., except from June 1 through Labor Day, when evening hours are extended to 9 p.m.
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