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1 Youth Employment; Permitted When School Attendance is Not Required. Amend RSA 276-A:4, IV-VI to read as follows:
IV. No youth under 16 years of age shall be employed or permitted to work earlier than 7 o'clock a.m. or later than 9 o'clock p.m., more than 3 hours per day on school days and 23 hours per week during school weeks, except that on nonschool days he may be employed 8 hours per day and, during vacations, 48 hours per week. . Upon application by an employer who employs a youth under 16 years of age in agricultural work, the commissioner of labor may order that the restriction upon hours of work imposed by this paragraph be suspended.
V. No youth under 12 years of age may be employed or permitted to work except for his parents, grandparents, or guardian, or at work defined in this chapter as casual, or in the door-to-door delivery of newspapers.
VI. In any employer's predetermined designated work week during which school is in session for 5 days, no youth 16 or 17 years of age who is duly enrolled in school shall work more than 35 hours during that work week.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
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1 Youth Employment; Permitted When School Attendance is Not Required. Amend RSA 276-A:4, IV-VI to read as follows:
IV. No youth under 16 years of age shall be employed or permitted to work earlier than 7 o'clock a.m. or later than 9 o'clock p.m., , except that on nonschool days the youth may be employed 8 hours per day and, during vacations, 48 hours per week. When school is in session a youth under 16 years of age shall be permitted to work at any time the youth is not required to attend school . Upon application by an employer who employs a youth under 16 years of age in agricultural work, the commissioner of labor may order that the restriction upon hours of work imposed by this paragraph be suspended.
V. No youth under 12 years of age may be employed or permitted to work except for his parents, grandparents, or guardian, or at work defined in this chapter as casual, or in the door-to-door delivery of newspapers.
VI. In any employer's predetermined designated work week during which school is in session for 5 days, no youth 16 or 17 years of age who is duly enrolled in school shall work more than 35 hours during that work week. unless the youth 's required attendance while school is in session is less than 35 hours per week in which case the youth shall be permitted to work at any time the youth is not required to attend school.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.