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Minors 16 & 17 |
Minors 14 & 15 - Under 14 years old MAY NOT
WORK |
SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE |
Florida: May NOT work
during school hours unless they meet a criterion of the
Hour Restrictions listed below. FSLA: No Limitations |
Florida & FLSA: May not work during school
hours (some exceptions apply). |
| PERMITS TO WORK |
Florida & FLSA: Not required,
except the FLSA requires the employer to maintain date
of birth information for all employees under 19 years
old. |
| HOURS OF WORK, WHEN SCHOOL IS IN SESSION |
Florida: May work up to 30 hours per week.
Not before
6:30 a.m. or later than 11 p.m. and for no more than 8
hours a day when school is scheduled the following day.
On days when school does not follow, there are no hour
restrictions. FLSA: No
limitations. |
Florida: May work up to 15 hours per week.
Not before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m. and for no more than
3 hours a day on school days, when a school day follows.
May work up to 8 hours on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and
on nonschool days, when school days do not follow, until
9 p.m. FLSA: Daily maximum of 3 hrs. on school days, 8
hours nonschool days; weekly maximum is 18 hours; not
before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m. Note: Application of both
state and
federal law allows this age group to work up to 8 hours
on Saturday, Sunday and nonschool days, when school days
do not follow, until 7 p.m. |
HOURS OF WORK, WHEN SCHOOL IS NOT IN SESSION
(summer vacation; winter & spring breaks) |
Florida: No Limitations
FLSA: No limitations.
Note: Hazards still apply for minors. |
Florida: May work up to 8 hrs. per day and
up to 40 hrs. per week; may not work before 7 a.m. or
after 9 p.m.
FLSA: May work up to 8 hrs. per day and up to 40 hrs.
per week. Work must be performed between 7 a.m. and 7
p.m.; from June 1 to Labor Day may work until 9 p.m. |
| DAYS PER WEEK |
Florida: No more than 6 consecutive
days in any one week. FLSA: No limitations. |
| BREAKS |
Florida: No more than 6 consecutive
days in any one week. FLSA: No limitations. |
| AGRICULTURE |
Florida: Minors participating in
farm work, not on their parents or guardian’s farm,
must comply with the same restrictions as in other work.
FLSA: No limitations. |
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FLSA: No employment permitted during
school hours. May work after school in occupations not
declared hazardous in agriculture. See Child Labor Bulletin
102. (Exception: 12 and 13 year-olds may be employed with
written parental consent or on a farm where the minor’s
parent is also employed; minors under 12 may be employed
with written parental consent on farms where employees
are exempt from the Federal minimum wage provisions.) |
RESTRICTED
OCCUPATIONS |
The State of Florida has incorporated
the 17 Hazardous Occupations (HO’s) of the FLSA
into the Florida law and Child Labor Rule. For more info
on HO’s, contact the U.S. Department of Labor, Wage
& Hour Division. This poster represents a combination
of those laws with an **“annotating Florida law
“only”. Minors under the age of 18 may not
work in below
occupations. |
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- Working in or around explosives or radioactive substances
- Operating Motor vehicles
- Logging or saw milling
- Operating power-driven meat processing machines
to include meat & vegetable slicers; Slaughtering,
meat packing, processing or
rendering
- Working on any scaffolding, roofs or ladders above
6 feet; roofing
- Wrecking, demolition or excavation
- Mining occupations
- Operating power-driven bakery; metal-forming, punching,
and shearing machines; woodworking, paper products
or hoisting machines
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- Manufacturing brick and tile products
- • Operating circular saws, band saws, &
guillotine shears
- Working with compressed gases exceeding 40 p.s.i.
- Working in or around toxic substances, corrosives
or pesticides
- Firefighting
- Working with electrical apparatus or wiring
- Operating or assisting to operate tractors over
20 PTO horsepower, forklifts, earthmoving equipment,
any harvesting, planting, or plowing machinery or
any moving machinery
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Minors 14 and 15 may not work in
these occupations or use this equipment: |
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- Operating any power-driven machinery other than
office machines, including all power mowers and cutters
- Maintaining or repairing an establishment, machines,
or
equipment
- Working in freezers or meat coolers
- Operating, setting up, adjusting, or cleaning power-driven
meat or vegetable slicers, grinders, food choppers,
and cutters, and bakery-type mixers
- Operating motor vehicles
- Manufacturing, mining, or processing occupations
where goods are manufactured, mined, or processed
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| EXEMPTIONS |
Hour Restrictions — (from hour restrictions
only; hazard restrictions still apply until 18 yrs.)
- Minors who hold waivers from a public school or
Child Labor Compliance
- Minors who have been married
- Minors who have either graduated from an accredited
high school, or hold a high school equivalency diploma
- Minors who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces
- Minors who are enrolled in high school work programs
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Age Restrictions — (from age requirements;
hazard restrictions still apply)
- Minors who work for their parents in
occupations not declared hazardous
- Pages in the Florida legislature
- Newspaper delivery (10 years old)
- Minors in the entertainment industry registered
with the Child Labor Compliance
A court may authorize an exemption from age and hour
restrictions. |
PARTIAL WAIVERS
The Florida Child Labor law is designed to serve and protect
minors and encourage them to remain in school. At times,
some minors may feel that the law conflicts with their
best interest or their life
circumstances; therefore, they have the right to request
an exemption from the law. If a minor is attending a K-12
public school, a waiver may be obtained and granted by
the local school district. All other minors may request
an application by contacting the Child Labor Compliance.
Waiver applications are reviewed and granted on a case
by case basis.
To qualify, applicants must demonstrate that certain
requirements of Florida law need to be waived. Employers
must keep a copy of partial waivers of employed minors.
PENALTIES Florida: Employment of minors
in violation of Florida Child Labor laws may result
in fines up to $2,500 per offense and/or be guilty of
a second degree misdemeanor. FLSA: Maximum fines up
to $10,000 per minor/per violation.
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION Florida:
If an injured minor is employed in violation of any
provisions of the Child Labor laws of Florida, an employer
may be subject to up to double the compensation otherwise
payable under Florida Workers’ Compensation law.
POSTING REQUIREMENTS Florida: All
employers of minors must post in a conspicuous place
on the property or place of employment, where it may
be easily read, a poster notifying minors of the Child
Labor laws.
For information on Florida laws contact:
Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation
• Child Labor Program
1940 North Monroe Street • Tallahassee, FL 32399-1044
• Telephone 850.488.3131; Toll-Free 1.800.226.2536
• www.myflorida.com/dbpr
For information on federal laws contact:
U.S. Department of Labor, Wage & Hour Division,
listed in the telephone directory under U.S. Government;
www.dol.gov/elaws/flsa.htm.
Florida Department of Business and Professional
Regulation and the United States Department of Labor
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