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Child Labor Law limitations on Construction Sites

Written on February 26, 2009 by admin

Filed Under: Labor Law

Fair Labor Standards Act FLSA regulates the empoyment of children beneath 18 years of age in assertive types of employment;

Restrictions :

For accouchement age-old 14 and 15, some regulations apply. For accouchement 16 to 18, added regulations apply, and for accouchement over 18, a lot of regulations do not apply. Generally, children aged 15 and beneath may not be active in a amount of occupations, including construction. 29 CFR §§ 570.33, 570.119.

Children age-old 16 and 17 may plan in construction accompanying operations, but may not be complex in assertive “particularly hazardous” occupations at a construction site. Those occupations include;

• Motor car driver;
• Operation of power-driven woodworking equipment;
• Operation of power-driven hoisting apparatus;
• Operation of annular saws, bandsaws, and decollate shears;
• Wrecking or annihilation operations; and
• Excavation operations.
• All added activities may be affianced in.

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• Construction Site Injury and the Law