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So if you are a good person or you feel certain laws aren't important or are outdated, they don't have to be acknowledged. I see.

steveincowtown wrote:

Carry-a-Kimber wrote:

snatchel wrote:My first paid job was when I turned 14 at Angelo Burger Company here in San Angelo. I worked there 40 hours a week until the day I graduated 4 years later and went off to boot camp.

Sounds like Angelo Burger Company needs to brush up on the federal labor laws.

I must be missing something here. What labor laws? In Texas I believe you can work in some occupations when you are 14.

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I guess you did miss it, it's right there in the link you posted. It has nothing to do with working at 14 but the amount of hours a 14-15 y/o is permitted to work without a federal hardship waiver.

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.

snatchel wrote:My first paid job was when I turned 14 at Angelo Burger Company here in San Angelo. I worked there 40 hours a week until the day I graduated 4 years later and went off to boot camp.

Sounds like Angelo Burger Company needs to brush up on the federal labor laws.

My first job was stacking sod on the back of a havester at a grass farm. At $2.13 a pallet we could make about $20/hr. Bad part is we only typically did 20 pallets a day on school days and 40 on non school days and at most 100-120 pallets a week.