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CFR  

Code of Federal Regulations Pertaining to ESA

Title 29  

Labor

 

Chapter V  

Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor

 

 

Part 779  

The Fair Labor Standards Act As Applied to Retailers of Goods or Services

 

 

 

Subpart F  

Other Provisions Which May Affect Retail Enterprises


29 CFR 779.508 - Eighteen-year minimum.

  • Section Number: 779.508
  • Section Name: Eighteen-year minimum.

    To protect young workers from hazardous employment, the Act provides 
for a minimum age of 18 years in occupations found and declared by the 
Secretary to be particularly hazardous or detrimental to health or well-
being of minors 16 and 17 years of age. These occupations may be found 
in Secs. 570.51 through 570.68 of this chapter. Of particular interest 
to retailers are Secs. 570.52, 570.58, 570.62 and 570.63 of this chapter 
pertaining to the occupations of motor-vehicle driver and outside 
helper, and occupations involving the operation of power-driven hoisting 
apparatus, bakery machines, and paper products machines.
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