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GUIDELINES FOR HIRING MINORS

If students under age 18 are hired, the Fair Labor Standards Act restricts the type of work they can perform. Several guidelines follow.

Ages 16 and 17

This age group may work at any time for unlimited hours in all jobs declared not hazardous. Hazardous occupations include operating motor vehicles; working with radioactive and explosive material; operating certain power-driven woodworking (such as circular and band saws), metal working and bakery machinery; operating various types of power-driven hoisting apparatus, such as non-automatic elevators, forklifts and cranes.

Ages 14 and 15

This age group may work in various jobs outside school hours under the following conditions:
  • No more than three hours on a school day, with a limit of 18 hours in a school week
  • No more than eight hours on a non-school day, with a limit of 40 hours in a non-school week
  • Not before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m. except from June 1 through Labor Day, when the evening hour is extended to 9 p.m.
They may be employed in many jobs, such as office work; food service jobs, including cashiering, waiting and busing tables; errand and delivery work by foot, bicycle and public transportation; and most cleanup work.

In addition to the previously stated hazardous occupations, they may not cook, bake, grill or fry; operate or tend most power-driven machinery, such as mowers, hoisting or lifting apparatus, pits, racks, tire repair equipment, perform work connected with warehousing, storage, loading/unloading, construction and security. 

In Agriculture,  hazardous occupations include: cultivation and tillage of soil; dairying; production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of agricultural or horticultural commodities; raising of livestock and any practices performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations including delivery to storage or to carriers for transportation.

Under age 14

  • May not work for NDSU.

Verification of Age

Candidates between the ages of 14 to 16 years of age must obtain a work permit and submit it to the Payroll Office. Work permits may be obtained through the school in which the candidate is attending or through the Superintendent of Schools office.

For more information, contact Human Resources, 231-8788.

     
Prospective students may schedule a visit by calling 1-800-488-NDSU.
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