The U.S. Department of Labor's YouthRules! initiative provides guidelines on the types of jobs and hours teens aged 14-17 can work. It aims to promote positive work experiences for young people by educating them and their employers on labor laws. The initiative sets limits on hours teens can work based on their age and whether it is a school day. It also identifies 17 hazardous jobs teens under 18 are prohibited from, such as mining, roofing, and operating certain machinery. The goal is to ensure teens' health and safety while gaining valuable early work experience.
The U.S. Department of Labor's YouthRules! initiative provides guidelines on the types of jobs and hours teens aged 14-17 can work. It aims to promote positive work experiences for young people by educating them and their employers on labor laws. The initiative sets limits on hours teens can work based on their age and whether it is a school day. It also identifies 17 hazardous jobs teens under 18 are prohibited from, such as mining, roofing, and operating certain machinery. The goal is to ensure teens' health and safety while gaining valuable early work experience.
The U.S. Department of Labor's YouthRules! initiative provides guidelines on the types of jobs and hours teens aged 14-17 can work. It aims to promote positive work experiences for young people by educating them and their employers on labor laws. The initiative sets limits on hours teens can work based on their age and whether it is a school day. It also identifies 17 hazardous jobs teens under 18 are prohibited from, such as mining, roofing, and operating certain machinery. The goal is to ensure teens' health and safety while gaining valuable early work experience.
The U.S. Department of Labor's YouthRules! initiative provides guidelines on the types of jobs and hours teens aged 14-17 can work. It aims to promote positive work experiences for young people by educating them and their employers on labor laws. The initiative sets limits on hours teens can work based on their age and whether it is a school day. It also identifies 17 hazardous jobs teens under 18 are prohibited from, such as mining, roofing, and operating certain machinery. The goal is to ensure teens' health and safety while gaining valuable early work experience.
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When And Where Is Your Teen Allowed To Work?
(NAPS)—Every year, millions
of teens work in part-time or sum- mer jobs. Early work experiences can be rewarding for young work- ers, providing great opportunities to learn important skills. How- ever, the jobs that teens are hired to do should not jeopardize their health or well-being. Under the leadership of Secre- tary Elaine L. Chao, the U.S. Department of Labor launched the YouthRules! initiative. This initia- tive promotes positive and safe work experiences for young work- ers by educating parents, teens, employers, and educators about the types of jobs teens can hold and the number of hours they can work. YouthRules!—an initiative cre- 14- and 15-Year-Olds Can ated by the Department of Work: Labor—is designed to promote • Outside school hours positive and safe work experi- • After 7 a.m. and until 7 p.m. (hours are extended to 9 p.m. ences for teens. Learn more at June 1 through Labor Day) www.youthrules.dol.gov or call • Up to 3 hours on a school day 1-866-4USWAGE. • Up to 18 hours in a school meat packing or processing, using week power-driven bakery machines or • Up to 8 hours on a non- paper-product machines, roofing, school day and excavation operations. Most • Up to 40 hours in a non- driving is also prohibited. school week • Once a youth reaches 18 Jobs Teens Can Perform years of age, he or she is no longer • Teens 13 or younger can subject to the Federal youth baby-sit, deliver newspapers, or employment laws. work as an actor or performer. Different rules apply to youth •14- and 15-year-olds may employed in agriculture. States work in a variety of jobs including may also have different laws. those located in offices, grocery For more information about this stores, retail stores, restaurants, initiative, including what jobs movie theaters, amusement are considered hazardous, visit parks, baseball parks or gasoline www.youthrules.dol.gov or call the service stations. However, they Department’s toll-free number at are prohibited from working in 1-866-4USWAGE. jobs declared hazardous by the Through the YouthRules! initia- Secretary of Labor. tive, the U.S. Department of Labor • 16- and 17-year-olds can work wants to ensure that all teens have in any job that hasn’t been declared positive work experiences that help hazardous. There are 17 hazardous prepare them for the demands of jobs young workers under the age the workforce. After all, today’s of 18 are prohibited from doing. youth will be the workforce of Some of these jobs include mining, tomorrow.