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 16VAC15-30-230 - Employment of 14- and 15-year-old minors in retail food service and gasoline establishments
Universal Citation: 6 VA Admin Code 15-30-230
Current through Register Vol. 41, No. 3, September 23, 2024
A. Minors 14 and 15 years of age are prohibited from being employed in the following occupations in retail food service and gasoline service establishments:
1. Work performed in or about
boiler or engine rooms.
2. Work in
connection with maintenance or repair of the establishments, machines, or
equipment.
3. Outside window
washing that involves working from windowsills, and all work requiring the use
of ladders, scaffolds, or their substitutes.
4. Cooking and baking (except at soda
fountains, lunch counters, snack bars, or cafeteria serving
counters).
5. Occupations that
involve operating, setting up, adjusting, cleaning, oiling, or repairing
power-driven food slicers and grinders, food choppers and cutters, and
bakery-type mixers.
6. Work in
freezers and meat coolers and all work in preparation of meats for sale (except
wrapping, sealing, labeling, weighing, pricing, and stocking when performed in
other areas).
7. Loading and
unloading goods to and from trucks, railroad cars, or conveyors.
8. All occupations in warehouses except
office and clerical work.
9. Work
in connection with cars and trucks involving:
a. Use of pits, racks, or lifting
apparatus.
b. Inflation of any tire
mounted on a rim equipped with a removable retaining ring.
B. Minors 14 and 15 years of age may be employed in the following occupations in retail food service and gasoline service establishments:
1. Office and
clerical work (including operation of office machines).
2. Cashiering, selling, modeling, art work,
work in advertising departments, window trimming, and comparative
shopping.
3. Price marking and
tagging by hand or by machine, assembling orders, packing, and
shelving.
4. Bagging and carrying
out customers' orders.
5. Errand
and delivery work by foot, bicycle, and public transportation.
6. Clean-up work, including the use of vacuum
cleaners and floor waxers, and maintenance of grounds, but not including the
use of power-driven mowers or cutters.
7. Kitchen work and other work involved in
preparing and serving food and beverages, including the operation of machines
and devices used in the performance of such work, such as, but not limited to,
dishwashers, toasters, dumbwaiters, popcorn poppers, milk shake blenders, and
coffee grinders.
8. Cleaning
vegetables and fruits, and wrapping, sealing, labeling, weighing, pricing, and
stocking goods when performed in areas physically separate from areas where
meat is prepared for sale and outside freezers or meat coolers.
9. Work in connection with cars and trucks if
confined to the following:
a. Dispensing
gasoline and oil.
b. Courtesy
service on premises of gasoline service station.
c. Car cleaning, hand washing and
polishing.
d. Sales and clerical
work.
Statutory Authority
§ 40.1-100 of the Code of Virginia.
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