If You Are 14 or 15

Work in Factory Offices and Service Stores

No one under 16 may work on the factory floor, but 14- or 15-year- olds may work in delivery and desk jobs in a factory office.  The office must be enclosed and separate from the manufacturing area. The office must have a partition at least seven feet high, and must have a separate entrance so that young people may enter or leave without passing through the factory workroom. 

A minor of 14 or 15 also may work in a delivery job or at a counter in a service store where goods belonging to customers are cleaned, pressed, altered or repaired, such as a:

• Dry cleaning store
• Tailor shop
• Shoe repair shop
• Laundry store
• Hat cleaning store  
• Similar service store

You may not:

• Work in construction or in any factory workroom
• Use most power-driven equipment
• Use washing, grinding, cutting slicing, pressing or mixing machinery (whether or not it is power-driven)