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No child shall be employed or permitted to work for more than five hours continuously without an interval of at least thirty minutes for a lunch period.

FOR CHILD:

Obtaining a work permit:

1. Intention to Employ, which is completed by your employer and must clearly state the work you will be doing.
2. Permission for Employment, which is completed by your parent and notarized 
3. Proof of age
4. Lifeguard certificate

The primary requirements for working minors:

• Must be 14 to work in most jobs
• Minors who are 14 and 15
• Must have a work permit
• Have limited hours they can work, and
• Cannot work in certain jobs

• Minors who are 16 and 17 do not have to obtain a work permit and do not have limited hours, but are barred from working in certain particularly hazardous jobs.

The youth may not begin employment until the employment certificate is issued.  Upon approval the employment certificate will be mailed directly to the employer.  Please allow seven to ten business days processing time.

FOR EMPLOYER

Records to be kept by employers.

Every employer employing minors under sixteen years of age shall keep a time book or time cards or other appropriate records for such minor employees which shall show the beginning and ending time of work each day together with the amount of time designated as a free-from-duty meal period, which is deductible from the schedule of hours of work. The record for the preceding twelve months for each such minor employee shall be kept on the premises for a period of thirty-six months from the date of the latest work period recorded for the minor employee involved.

Time records §40.1-81.1

Employment Certificate §40.1-84

Proof of Age §40.1-93

Lifeguard certificate 29 C.F.R. § 570.34(l)

No child shall be employed or permitted to work for more than five hours continuously without an interval of at least thirty minutes for a lunch period, and no period of less than thirty minutes shall be deemed to interrupt a continuous period of work. Underage employees are to have their records kept at each pool site, in a sealed envelope, if preferred. Inspectors are to have access to timesheet records, whether electronic or on paper. Timesheet can be real-time filled out by employees, or pre-planned and pre-printed by employer and signed by underage employee.

Work Hours are limited to:

• Non-school hours;
• 3 hours in a school day;
• 18 hours in a school week;
• 8 hours on a non-school day;
• 40 hours on a non-school week; and
• hours between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. (except from June 1 through Labor Day, when evening hours are extended to 9 p.m.)
• Not more than 5 continuous hours of labor per shift, unless interrupted by an interval of at least one half hour