Virginia Administrative Code
Title 16 - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
Agency 15 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Chapter 30 - VIRGINIA RULES AND REGULATIONS DECLARING HAZARDOUS OCCUPATIONS
Section 16VAC15-30-220 - Employment of 14- and 15-year-old minors generally
Universal Citation: 6 VA Admin Code 15-30-220
Current through Register Vol. 41, No. 3, September 23, 2024
A. Minors 14 and 15 years old may not be employed in any occupation declared hazardous for 16- and 17-year-old minors and, in addition, are prohibited from being employed in any of the following:
1. In any mechanical establishment.
2. In any commercial cannery.
3. In the operation of any automatic
passenger or freight elevator.
4.
In any dance studio.
5. In any
hospital, nursing home, clinic, or other establishments providing care for
resident patients.
6. As a
laboratory helper, therapist, orderly, or nurse's aide.
7. At any veterinary hospital.
8. In any undertaking establishment or
funeral home.
9. In curb service at
restaurants.
10. In hotel and motel
room service.
11. In any brick,
coal, or lumber yard.
12. In any
ice plant.
13. As ushers in
theaters.
14. In any scaffolding
work or construction trade.
15. In
any outdoor theater, cabaret, carnival, fair, floor show, pool hall, club, or
roadhouse.
16. As a lifeguard at a
beach.
17. In the solicitation,
sale, or obtaining of subscription contracts or orders for books, magazines, or
other periodical publications other than newspapers.
18. Any manufacturing occupation.
19. Any mining occupation.
20. Processing occupations such as filleting
of fish, dressing poultry, cracking nuts, or laundering as performed by
commercial laundries and dry cleaning (except in a retail, food service, or
gasoline service establishment in those specific occupations expressly
permitted in
16VAC15-30-230) .
21. Occupations requiring the performance of
any duties in workrooms or workplaces where goods are manufactured, mined, or
otherwise processed (except to the extent expressly permitted in retail, food
service, or gasoline service establishments in accordance with
16VAC15-30-230) .
22. Operation or tending of hoisting
apparatus or of any power-driven machinery (other than office machines and
machines in retail, food service, and gasoline service establishments that are
specified in
16VAC15-30-230 as machines that
such minors may operate in such establishments).
23. Occupations in connection with:
a. Transportation of persons or property by
rail, highway, air, on water, pipeline, or other means. Exception: Office or
sales work in connection with these activities is permitted.
b. Warehousing and storage. Exception: Office
or sales work in connection with these activities is permitted.
c. Communications and public utilities.
Exception: Office or sales work in connection with these activities is
permitted.
B. EXCEPTIONS: Activities 14- and 15-year-old minors may be engaged in include:
1. Children 14 years of age and over may be
engaged in office work of a clerical nature in bona fide office rooms in the
establishments listed in subsection A of this section.
2. Children 14 years of age and over may be
employed by dry cleaning or laundry establishments in branch stores where no
processing is done on the premises.
3. Children 14 years of age and over may be
employed in hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics where they may be engaged in
kitchen work, tray service, or room and hall cleaning.
4. Children 14 years of age and over may be
employed in bowling alleys completely equipped with automatic pin setters, but
not in or about such machines.
Statutory Authority
§ 40.1-100 of the Code of Virginia.
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