74novaman wrote:Meh. As long as the kid is showing up to school, passing his classes and isn't being FORCED to work 40 hours a week....if they want to do it, I don't think the feds should have any say in the matter.Carry-a-Kimber wrote:
Federal Law:
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) a child 14 or 15 years of age may not work during school hours, may not work more than three hours on a school day or 18 hours during a school week, and may not work more than eight hours on a non-school day or 40 hours during a non-school week. Furthermore, a child 14 or 15 years of age may work only between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. during the school year. Between June 1 and Labor Day, a child may work between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 p.m.
I don't think was any kind of FLSA when I started working, and if there was, nobody knew or cared...you could do whatever you were big enough to handle. First thing I did to earn money outside of family was picking up pecans "on the halves" along the river...work 5 or 6 hours and the landowner would weigh your sacks out on his scale and pay you on the spot. I could pick up 20lbs and make about $2.00 ...seemed like a lot of money to a 10 year old back in the mid 60's. Between then and high school graduation, I worked: hauling hay, doing lube/oil/filter and tire changing at a gas station, busboy/dishwasher at a restaurant, construction helper on a new motel, loading semi trucks with frozen turkeys at an Armour Turkey Plant, and shoveling concrete for a sewer treatment plant construction project. I could handle all but the restaraunt job...I lasted about two weeks there, and I understood the phrase "I'd rather go out and dig ditches".