[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 29, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 29CFR570.2]



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                             TITLE 29--LABOR

 

         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

 

PART 570_CHILD LABOR REGULATIONS, ORDERS AND STATEMENTS OF INTERPRETATION

--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec.  570.2  Minimum age standards.



    (a) All occupations except in agriculture. (1) The Act, in section 

3(1), sets a general 16-year minimum age which applies to all employment 

subject to its child labor provisions in any occupation other than in 

agriculture, with the following exceptions:

    (i) The Act authorizes the Secretary of Labor to provide by 

regulation or by order that the employment of employees between the ages 

of 14 and 16 years in occupations other than manufacturing and mining 

shall not be deemed to constitute oppressive child labor, if and to the 

extent that the Secretary of Labor determines that such employment is 

confined to periods which will not interfere with their schooling and to 

conditions which will not interfere with their health and well-being 

(see subpart C of this part); and

    (ii) The Act sets an 18-year minimum age with respect to employment 

in any occupation found and declared by the Secretary of Labor to be 

particularly hazardous for the employment of minors of such age or 

detrimental to their health or well-being (see subpart E of this part).

    (2) The Act exempts from its minimum age requirements the employment 

by a parent of his own child, or by a person standing in place of a 

parent of a child in his custody, except in occupations to which the 18-

year age minimum applies and in manufacturing and mining occupations.

    (b) Occupations in agriculture. The Act sets a 16-year age minimum 

for employment in agriculture during school hours for the school 

district in which the employed minor is living at the time, and also for 

employment in any occupation in agriculture that the Secretary of Labor 

finds and declares to be particularly hazardous except where such 

employee is employed by his parent or by a person standing in the place 

of his parent on a farm owned or operated by such parent or person (see 

Subpart E-1 of this part). There is a minimum age requirement of 14 

years generally for employment in agriculture outside school hours for 

the school district where such employee is living while so employed. 

However, (1) a minor 12 or 13 years of age may be so employed with 

written consent of his parent or person standing in place of his parent, 

or may work on a farm where such parent or person is also employed, and 

(2) a minor under 12 years of age may be employed by his parent or by a 

person standing in place of his parent on a farm owned or operated by 

such parent or person, or may be employed with consent of such parent or 

person on a farm where all employees are exempt from the minimum wage 

provisions by virtue of section 13(a) (6) (A) of the Act.



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