HIRING IOWA TEENS: State of Iowa Child Labor Laws Jim Harris - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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HIRING IOWA TEENS: State of Iowa Child Labor Laws

Jim Harris Diana Norman Investigators

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Child Labor Laws

 Work permit requirements  Minimum age for employment  Time the minor may work (hours, times of

year)

 Total hours the minor may work  Types of jobs the minor can and can’t

perform

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Work Permits 14 and 15 year olds

 Minor and parent signs (if child under 16)  Employer fills out employer portion of form  Employer examines and copies minor’s proof of age  Employer submits copy of work permit to Iowa

Division of Labor

 Do not submit the minor’s proof of age to the Division

• f Labor

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Work Permits 14 and 15 year olds

 Applies to minors ages 14 or 15  Youth ages 10 through 15 need a work permit

to deliver shoppers or perform any other “street occupation” including door-to-door selling

 Ages 12 through 16 doing migrant labor must

• btain a work permit

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Proof of Minor’s Age

 The minor must provide identification to prove

his/her age Acceptable proof includes:

 Certified birth certificate  Department of Transportation issued drivers permit  Certified baptismal record  Current passport  Federal government issued identification such as resident

alien card or VISA

 Physician’s certificate (certify child is age 14 or older)

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Iowa Child Labor Application/ Work Permit

 Frequent Problems

 Missing or no signatures (employer, minor or

parent)

 Incomplete or missing information  Proof of minor’s age not indicated  Not submitted within 3 days of minor

starting work

 Minor’s starting date not provided

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PENALTIES

 Employer and parent/guardian can be

found guilty of a serious misdemeanor

 Employer may be charged civil penalties up

to $10,000 per child per violation

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Hours 14/15 year olds may work

 Outside school hours  Between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. the day after

Labor Day through May 31

 Between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. from June 1

through Labor Day

 Home-school children subject to same

hours

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Hours: 14/15 year olds

 May not work more than 4 hours daily on school

days

 No more than 28 hours during a school week  No more than 8 hours a day during vacation,

weekends, holidays

 No more than 40 hours a week during June 1

through Labor Day, or when school is not in session

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Definitions - Both

 School Day:

 any day school is in session Non-school Day:  any day school not in session

 School Week:

 any week school is in session, even if it was in

session for only one school day

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What 14/15 years olds can do

 Iowa law limits employment of 14 and

15 year old minors to certain

• ccupations which do not interfere with

their education, health and well-being

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14 years of age or older may:

 Pack fresh fruits, vegetables in retail, or ag setting,

but not in processing setting

 Answer phones, take messages in telephone

answering service

 Caddy on a golf course (no operating the golf cart)  Sell gas, oil or wash, polish cars at service station

(must be 16 or over to run power washers)

 Do office, clerical work  Manual maintenance of grounds (must be 16 or over

to use power lawn mower, weed eater, leaf blower, etc.)

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Permitted Occupations-14 years of age or older

 Retail, food service and gasoline service

establishments

 Office and clerical work, including operation of office

machines

 Cashiering, selling, modeling, art work, work in

advertising departments, window trimming and comparative shopping

 Price marking and tagging by hand or machine,

assembling orders, packing and shelving

 Bagging and carrying out customer’s orders  Errand and delivery work by foot, bicycle or public

transportation

Permitted Occupations-14 years of age or older

 Clean-up work, including the use of vacuum

cleaners and floor waxers and maintenance

• f grounds

 Kitchen work and other work involved in

preparing and serving food and beverages, including the operation of machines and devices used in the performance of such work, including but not limited to dishwashers, toasters, dumb-waiters, popcorn poppers, milk shake blenders and coffee grinders

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Permitted Occupations-14 years of age or older

 Work in connection with motor vehicles if

confined to the following:

 Dispensing gas and oil  Courtesy service  Car cleaning, washing and polishing  No work involving the use of pits, racks or

lifting apparatus or involving the inflation of any tire mounted on a rim equipped with a removable retaining ring

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Permitted Occupations-14 years of age or older

 Cleaning vegetables and fruits, and wrapping,

sealing, labeling, weighing, pricing and stocking goods when performed in areas physically separate from areas where meat is prepared, for sale and outside freezers and meat coolers

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Occupations not permitted for 14 and 15 year olds

 Any manufacturing occupation  Any mining occupation  Processing operations, except in a retail, food

service or gasoline service establishment

 Occupations requiring the performance of any

duties in workrooms or work places where goods are manufactured, mined or otherwise processed, except in retail, food service or gasoline service establishment

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Occupations not permitted for 14 and 15 year olds

 Public messenger service  Operation or tending of hoisting apparatus or

• f any power-driven machinery, other than
• ffice machines and machines in retail, food

service and gasoline service establishments

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Occupations not permitted for 14 and 15 year olds

 Occupations in connection with the following,

except office or sales work, not performed on transportation media or at the actual construction site:

 Transportation of persons or property by rail,

highway, air, on water, pipeline or other means

 Warehousing and storage  Communications and public utilities  Construction, including repair

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Occupations not permitted for 14 and 15 year olds

 Any of the following occupations in a retail,

food service or gasoline establishment:

 Work performed in or about boiler or engine

rooms

 Work in connection with maintenance or repair

• f the establishment, machines or equipment

 Outside window washing that involves working

from window sills, and all work requiring the use of ladders, scaffolds or their substitutes

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Occupations not permitted for 14 and 15 year olds

 Cooking, except at soda fountains, lunch

counters, snack bars, or cafeteria serving counters and baking

 Occupations which involve operating, setting

up, adjusting, cleaning, oiling or repairing power driven food slicers and grinders, food choppers and cutters and bakery-type mixers

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Occupations not permitted for 14 and 15 year olds

 Work in freezers and meat coolers and all

work in preparation of meats for sale, except wrapping, sealing, labeling, weighing, pricing and stocking when performed in other areas

 Loading and unloading goods to and from

trucks, railroad cars or conveyors

 All occupations in warehouses except office

and clerical work

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Occupations not permitted for 14 and 15 year olds

 Laundering, except for the use of a washing

machine which has a capacity of less then ten cubic feet and which is designed to reach an internal temperature which does not exceed two hundred twelve degrees Fahrenheit **Note** This will be effective 7/1/2017 per new legislation

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Dangerous Chemicals

 Under Iowa Code § 92.8(19), minors may not

be exposed to dangerous or poisonous

• chemicals. Those would include any

chemicals that have a Safety Data Sheet or Material Safety Data Sheet that refer to any personal protective equipment

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Under Eighteen-Prohibited Occupations

 Working around places that make or store explosives  Motor vehicle driver and helper  Logging, operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle

mill, cooperage-stock mill

 Operating power-driven woodworking machines  Working where exposed to radioactive substances, or

to ionizing radiations

 Operating elevators or other power-driven hoisting

apparatus

 Operating power-driven metal forming, punching,

shearing machines

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Under Eighteen-Prohibited Occupations

 Mining  Work in slaughtering and meatpacking

establishments and rendering plants

 Operation of operating certain power-driven

bakery machines

 Operation of certain power-driven paper

product machines

 Manufacture of brick, tile and related products  Operation of circular saws, band saws and

guillotine shears

Under Eighteen-Prohibited Occupations

 Wrecking, demolition, or ship breaking

• perations

 Roofing operations  Excavation occupations  In or about foundries; office, shipping and

assembly type jobs are not prohibited

 Operation of laundry, dry cleaning or dyeing

machinery ** Note ** Laundry will be permitted 7/1/2017 due to new legislation

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Under Eighteen-Prohibited Occupations

 Working where exposed to lead fumes or its

compounds, or to dangerous or poisonous dyes or chemicals

 Work that involves the transmission or

delivery of goods between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.

Exceptions

 In or around the child’s home  Detasseling and hand-pollinating

 Must be at least 14 years old and work between June and August  Part-time work in agriculture

 Parents

 Child’s parents must own and/or be the day-to-day operator, and be

• n the premises at all times while the child is present

 Modeling – needs a Special Order

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For More Information

 Iowa Child Labor

 (515) 725-5619 Jim Harris  (515) 725-5618 Diana Norman

 Iowa Division of Labor Services at

http://www.iowadivisionoflabor.gov/child-labor

 US Dept. of Labor Wage and Hour Division

(515) 284-4625; www.dol.gov/whd/

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