SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
Full-time school is compulsory for minors under 16 years old. A community can require minors who are not employed to attend school until they reach age 17 or graduate. High school graduates, regardless of age, are not required to continue attending school. However, they must provide an employer with a Full-time Employment Certificate until they reach their 18th birthday.
MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT
There are certain exceptions to these rules and they are subject to the employment certification regulations that follow:
Minors not yet 14 may not be employed at any time, neither after school nor during vacation
Minors 14 and 15 years old may work after school hours and during vacations, but not in factory work. They may do delivery and clerical work in any enclosed office of a factory, and in dry cleaning, tailor, shoe repair, and similar service stores.
Minors 16 and 17 years of age, if not attending school, may work full time throughout the year. Factory work is permitted for minors 16 years of age or older. (See State Prohibited Occupations and Federal Prohibited Occupations
EXCEPTIONS - MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT
Minors 12 years of age or older may be employed in the hand harvest of berries, fruits, and vegetables.
Minors 11 years of age or older may work outside school hours as newspaper carriers to deliver, or sell and deliver newspapers, shopping papers, or periodicals to homes or business places. Minors 14 years of age and older may be engaged in street trades work, i.e. selling newspapers or periodicals on streets or public places.*
*(Under Federal law a 14 year age minimum is required for delivery of periodicals and similar items.)
Minors 12 years of age or older may work outside school hours for their parents or guardians either on the home farm or at other outdoor work not connected with a business.
There is no minimum age for child performers at theatrical, radio, or television performances or for child models.
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