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AL Code § 25-8-32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-32 - Legislative Findings and Intent.

Section 25-8-32Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature has found that Alabama law has not kept pace with federal standards regulating the employment of minors to the extent that it has become increasingly difficult for employers to comply with conflicting state and federal child labor requirements. Accordingly, numerous changes are necessary to make the child labor laws of Alabama compatible with the United States Department of Labor regulations governing the employment of minors in nonagricultural occupations. Similarly, there is also a need to remove anachronistic language and make clarifications to existing standards. In view of the foregoing findings, the Legislature through this chapter intends to do all of the following: (1) Conform with 17 federal hazardous orders. (2) Remove exemptions for domestic service and the grading or handling, or both, of agricultural products. (3) Add a restriction for occupations which involve working at heights exceeding six feet, as well as working in junk yards, scrap metal yards, or lumber yards. (4) Set hour restrictions which coincide with federal law for 14- and 15-year-olds. (5) Clarify waiver of school attendance which allows 14- and 15-year-olds to work until 9:00 p.m. (6) Require employers to post hour restrictions and work schedules for employees under 18 years of age, and add a meal break requirement for 14- and 15-year-olds. (7) Increase age requirements from 12 to 14 years of age to sell items on streets, and from 10 to 12 years of age to deliver newspapers. (8) More clearly define prohibited occupations and places of employment for minors under 18 years of age. (9) Prohibit persons under 18 years of age from performing nude or partially nude in any business establishment. (10) Exempt federally funded summer youth program personnel from obtaining work permits. (11) Add a "whistleblower" provision protecting employees and other individuals from being discriminated against as a result of disclosing information, making a charge, or refusing to obey an illegal order. (12) Increase the penalty for street trades violations from ten dollars ($10) to fifty dollars ($50) to one hundred dollars ($100) to five hundred dollars ($500) per violation. (13) Require reporting of names of child models under 18 years of age, placing responsibility on employers and parents for the care and schooling of the child and for ensuring that school performance will not suffer due to a child working. (Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §1; Act 2009-565, p. 1654, §3.)
AL Code § 25-8-32.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-32.1 - Definitions.

Section 25-8-32.1Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Labor. (2) ELIGIBILITY TO WORK FORM. A form issued by the head administrator, counselor, or, if home schooled an instructor of the school which a 14- or 15-year-old minor attends certifying satisfactory grades and attendance of the minor in order for a 14- or 15-year-old minor to be employed. (3) EMPLOY. To employ, permit, or suffer to work with or without compensation. (4) EMPLOYEE. Any person employed by an employer, but shall not include an individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, scientific, historical, literary, or nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not in fact exist or where the services rendered are on a voluntary basis. (5) EMPLOYER. Any owner or any person, entity, franchise, corporation, or division of a corporation, government agency, or association of persons acting directly as, or in behalf of, or in the interest of any employer in relation to employees, including the state and any political subdivision thereof. (6) SECRETARY. The Secretary of the Department of Labor. (7) VIOLATION. A failure by an employer, officer, agent, or any other person to comply with any applicable provision of the child labor law. (Act 2009-565, p. 1654, §1; Act 2012-231, p. 424, §1.)
AL Code § 25-8-32.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-32.2 - Child Labor Administrative Trust Fund.

Section 25-8-32.2Child Labor Administrative Trust Fund. (a) The Child Labor Administrative Trust Fund is established in the State Treasury into which shall be deposited certain assessments under this chapter collected by the department. The fund shall constitute a separate fund to be disbursed by the state Comptroller on order of the secretary. For two years following May 19, 2009, the child labor division of the department shall be funded from the State General Fund after which expenses incurred by the child labor division of the department under the child labor law, including the salaries of all employees, travel cost, and costs of administration and enforcement as may become necessary, either within or without the state, shall be paid from the trust fund in the State Treasury upon warrants of the state Comptroller drawn upon the State Treasury from time to time when vouchers therefor are approved by the secretary. For the two years referred to in the previous sentence, the amount contributed from the State General Fund in each of those years for expenses incurred by the child labor division shall not exceed the fiscal year 2009 amount of General Fund money funding this division. The State Treasurer shall pay moneys from the separate fund upon the order of the secretary. The total expense for every purpose incurred shall not exceed the total assessment collected and paid into the fund. No funds shall be withdrawn or expended except those budgeted and allocated in accordance with Article 4, commencing with Section 41-4-80, of Chapter 4 of Title 41. All moneys remaining unexpended in the separate fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the State Treasury to be expended as herein provided. (b) The State Treasurer shall determine if the money in the trust fund shall be kept in cash or invested. The moneys in the fund may be invested by the State Treasurer and all moneys and interest remaining unexpended in the separate fund provided at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the State Treasury to be expended as herein provided. (c) The secretary is designated as trustee of the fund and the State Treasurer is designated as custodian of the fund, and both shall furnish bonds in amounts deemed appropriate. The cost of bonds for the trustee, custodian, and other employees or officials required to post bond in connection with the program shall be paid out of the fund. (d) The department shall provide by rule for the collection of the amounts assessed against each person, entity, franchise, corporation, or division of a corporation. The amounts shall be paid at the time of application for the Class I and Class II Child Labor Certificates. (e) All money collected pursuant to this section, with the exception of civil penalties, shall be deposited in the Child Labor Administrative Trust Fund. Civil penalties collected pursuant to Section 25-8-59 shall be distributed as provided in Section 25-8-59. (Act 2009-565, p. 1654, §2.)
AL Code § 25-8-33 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-33 - Persons Under 16 Years of Age Prohibited From Working; Exceptions; Evidence of Employment.

Section 25-8-33Persons under 16 years of age prohibited from working; exceptions; evidence of employment. (a) No individual under 16 years of age shall be employed, except in agricultural service, and except as otherwise provided in this chapter. Any individual 14 or 15 years of age may be employed outside school hours and during school vacation periods, so long as the individual is not employed in, about, or in connection with, any manufacturing or mechanical establishment, cannery, mill, workshop, warehouse, or machine shop or in any occupation or place of employment otherwise prohibited by law. The presence of any individual under 18 years of age in any restricted business establishment or restricted occupation shall be prima facie evidence of his or her employment in the business establishment or occupation. (b)(1) This section does not apply to an individual 14 years of age or 15 years of age when both of the following are true: a. The individual is enrolled in either a youth pre-apprenticeship program, youth industry-registry apprenticeship program, or similar program in which employment and work-based learning are an integral part of the course of study. b. The program the individual is enrolled in is registered by the Alabama Office of Apprenticeship. (2) This section does not apply to employment procured by an individual 14 years of age or 15 years of age when the employment is supervised through the Alabama Department of Education and approved by the Alabama Department of Labor. (Acts 1919, No. 629, p. 867; Code 1923, §3494; Code 1940, T. 26, §343; Acts 1947, No. 613, p. 460, §1; §25-8-1; Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §2; Act 2012-231, p. 424, §1; Act 2019-527, §4.)
AL Code § 25-8-34 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-34 - Department of Labor May Declare Place or Occupation Dangerous or Injurious.

Section 25-8-34Department of Labor may declare place or occupation dangerous or injurious. The Alabama Department of Labor, hereinafter referred to as "the department," may declare any place or occupation dangerous to life or limb or injurious to health or morals of persons under 18 years of age. (Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §3; Act 2000-706, p. 1479, §1.)
AL Code § 25-8-35 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-35 - Prohibited Occupations and Places for Individuals Under 16 Years of Age.

Section 25-8-35Prohibited occupations and places for individuals under 16 years of age. (a) No individual under 16 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work at any of the following occupations, positions, or places: (1) Operating or assisting in operating any sandpaper or wood polishing machinery, any washing, grinding, or mixing machinery, or commercial laundry equipment. (2) Operating or assisting in operating any machines used in picking wool, cotton, hair, or any other material. (3) In any work in or about a rolling mill, machine shop, or manufacturing establishment which is hazardous or dangerous to health, limb, or life. (4) In proximity to any hazardous or unguarded gearing. (5) Upon any vessel or boat engaged in navigation or commerce within the jurisdiction of this state. (6) In the manufacture or packing of paints, colors, or white or red lead. (7) In occupations causing dust in injurious quantities. (8) In soldering, brazing, heat treating, or welding. (9) In the building trades, except that individuals 14 or 15 years of age who are members of the immediate family of the contractor may be employed in trades involving nonhazardous duties or occupations. (10) Repairing, painting, or cleaning buildings or structures while working at the top of ladders, lifts, or scaffolds exceeding a height of six feet. (11) In connection with a junk or scrap metal yard. (12) Assorting, manufacturing, or packing tobacco. (13) Operating any automobile, truck, or motor vehicle, or flagging or directing traffic. (14) In airport hangars or landing strips or taxi and maintenance aprons. (15) In connection with any lumberyard. (16) In any place or occupation which the department declares dangerous to life or limb or injurious to the health or morals of individuals under 16 years of age. (17) Selling of fireworks, unless under the direct supervision of an individual at least 18 years of age. (b)(1) This section does not apply to an individual 14 years of age or 15 years of age when both of the following are true: a. The individual is enrolled in either a youth pre-apprenticeship program, youth industry-registry apprenticeship program, or similar program in which employment and work-based learning are an integral part of the course of study. b. The program the individual is enrolled in is registered by the Alabama Office of Apprenticeship. (2) This section does not apply to employment procured by an individual 14 years of age or 15 years of age when the employment is supervised through the Alabama Department of Education and approved by the Alabama Department of Labor. (Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §4; Act 2009-565, p. 1654, §3; Act 2019-527, §4.)
AL Code § 25-8-36 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-36 - Time Restrictions.

Section 25-8-36Time restrictions. (a) No person 14 or 15 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in any gainful occupation for more than six days in any one week, or for more than 40 hours in any one week, or for more than eight hours in any one day, or before 7:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. during school summer vacation. During the time school is in regular session, no person 14 or 15 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in any gainful occupation for more than six days in any one week, or for more than eight hours on a non-school day, or more than three hours on a school day, or for more than 18 hours in any school week, and not before 7:00 a.m. or after 7:00 p.m. (b) No person 16, 17, or 18 years of age, who is enrolled in any public or private primary or secondary school system, shall work between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. on any night preceding a school day. The appropriate county or city superintendent of schools, or where there is no superintendent, the school headmaster, may grant exemptions to the above time restrictions. Exemptions shall be granted only when the individual circumstances are found to be in the best interests of the minor. Information of any exemptions granted shall be transmitted to a child labor inspector on a form authorized by him or her. (Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §5; Act 2000-706, p. 1479, §1.)
AL Code § 25-8-37 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-37 - Employment During Schools Hours; Employment of Persons 14 or 15 Years of Age Upon Waiver of School Attendance.

Section 25-8-37Employment during schools hours; employment of persons 14 or 15 years of age upon waiver of school attendance. (a) No person under 16 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in any occupation during the hours in which the public schools of the district in which the person resides are in session, unless the minor has completed the course of study required for secondary schools. Persons 14 or 15 years of age, when school attendance has been waived, upon recommendation of the local superintendent of education and approval by a child labor inspector, may be permitted to work in a nonhazardous occupation. (b) Employment authorized by this section shall not be for more than eight hours in any one day, or for more than 40 hours in any one week, or for more than six days in any one week, and not before 7:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. (Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §6; Act 2000-706, p. 1479, §1; Act 2009-565, p. 1654, §3.)
AL Code § 25-8-38 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-38 - Posting of Notice of Law; Time Records; Meal or Rest Period; Child Labor Certificate.

Section 25-8-38Posting of notice of law; time records; meal or rest period; Child Labor Certificate. (a) Every employer shall keep posted in a conspicuous place where any person under 19 years of age is employed, a printed notice stating the maximum number of hours persons under 19 may be permitted to work on each day of the week as set out in Section 25-8-36. The printed form of the notice shall be furnished by the department. The employment of any person for a longer time period in any day so stated, or at any time other than as stated in the printed form of notice, shall be deemed a violation of this chapter. (b) Subject to subsection (c), each employer shall keep on the premises at which any person under 19 years of age is employed a completed Employee Information Form and proof of age. Each employer shall also keep on the premises at which any person under 19 years of age is employed, in electronic or photostatic form, time records for the 60 days preceding the last day of the last work period recorded for each employee under 19 years of age, which shall state the number of hours worked each day, starting and ending times, and break times. Each employer shall also maintain, either on the premises where the employee under 19 years of age is employed or at a centralized location, the records required by this section for not less than 1 year preceding the last day of the last work period recorded for each employee under 19 years of age. (c) For the purposes of this section, the Employee Information Form shall be provided by the department and shall include the employee's name, home address, telephone number, date of birth, date of hire, and school of attendance. Any employer who does not utilize the Employee Information Form shall maintain on the premises documents containing the employee's name, home address, telephone number, date of birth, date of hire, and school of attendance for each employee under 19 years of age. (d) For the purposes of this section, documentation of proof of age may include a copy of a birth certificate, a copy of a driver's license, or an identification card issued by a federal, state, or local government agency provided the identification card contains the name and date of birth of the employee. (e) No person 14 or 15 years of age shall be employed for more than five hours continuously without a documented interval of at least 30 minutes for a meal or rest period. Any meal or rest period of less than 30 minutes shall not be considered to interrupt a continuous period of work. (f) Any employer required to obtain a Child Labor Certificate from the department shall keep the certificate posted at a public and conspicuous location at all times. (Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §7; Act 2009-565, p. 1654, §3; Act 2012-231, p. 424, §1.)
AL Code § 25-8-39 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-39 - Age Requirements for Street or Public Place Occupations; Exemptions.

Section 25-8-39Age requirements for street or public place occupations; exemptions. (a) No person under 14 years of age shall distribute, sell, expose, or offer for sale newspapers, magazines, periodicals, candy, or other articles, be employed or permitted or suffered to work in any other trade or occupation performed in any street or public place. (b) The following organizations are exempt from the requirements of subsection (a): Educational, charitable, religious, scientific, historical, literary, or nonprofit organizations where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist or where the services rendered to such organization are on a voluntary basis or any other activity as designated by the commissioner. (Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §8; Act 2009-565, p. 1654, §3.)
AL Code § 25-8-40 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-40 - Restrictions for Minors Engaging in Street or Public Place Occupations.

Section 25-8-40Restrictions for minors engaging in street or public place occupations. (a) No person under 16 years of age shall engage in any of the occupations mentioned in Section 25-8-39 after 7:00 p.m. or before 5:00 a.m. of any day. (b) No person, entity, franchise, corporation, or division of a corporation shall employ, permit, or suffer a minor under 16 years of age to work at any of the occupations mentioned in Section 25-8-39 after 7:00 p.m. or before 5:00 a.m. of any day. (Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §9; Act 2009-565, p. 1654, §3.)
AL Code § 25-8-41 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-41 - Official May Investigate and Revoke Permit Given for Street or Public Place Occupation.

Section 25-8-41Official may investigate and revoke permit given for street or public place occupation. Repealed by Act 2009-565, p. 1654, §4, effective May 19, 2009. (Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §10.)
AL Code § 25-8-42 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-42 - Minors Violating Provisions as to Street or Public Place Occupations Deemed Delinquent.

Section 25-8-42Minors violating provisions as to street or public place occupations deemed delinquent. Any person who engages in any street occupation in violation of Sections 25-8-39, 25-8-40, or 25-8-41 may be deemed delinquent and brought before any court having jurisdiction over juvenile delinquents. (Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §11.)
AL Code § 25-8-44 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-44 - Employment in Establishment Where Alcoholic Beverages Sold; Minors Performing Nude or Partially Nude.

Section 25-8-44Employment in establishment where alcoholic beverages sold; minors performing nude or partially nude. (a) No person under the state legal drinking age shall be employed to serve or dispense alcoholic beverages in any establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold, served, or dispensed for consumption on the premises. (b) No person under 16 years of age shall be employed in any establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold, served, or dispensed for consumption on the premises. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this section shall not prohibit the employment of persons 16 years of age or older as busboys, dishwashers, janitors, cooks, hostesses, or seaters restricted to leading patrons to seats; nor the employment of persons under 18 years of age as professional entertainers. (c) Members of the immediate family of the owner or operator who are 14 or 15 years of age may be employed in such establishments provided they do not serve, sell, dispense, or handle alcoholic beverages. (d) No person under 18 years of age shall be employed in any adult establishment or perform in any establishment, nude or nearly nude, in a manner or attire as to expose any portion of the pubic area, buttocks, anus, anal cleft, vulva, or genitals, or any simulation thereof, or show the covered male genitals in a discernible turgid state, or be attired in a manner as to expose to view the portion of the breast below the top of the areola or any simulation thereof. For the purposes of this subsection, an adult establishment includes, but is not limited to, an adult live entertainment business, an adult arcade, an adult bookstore, an adult cabaret, an adult movie theater, an adult toy store, an adult video store, a body shampooing business, an escort agency, a massage parlor, a nude model studio, a lingerie modeling studio, or any combination of the foregoing. (Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §13; Act 2012-231, p. 424, §1.)
AL Code § 25-8-46 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 8 - Child Labor.|Section 25-8-46 - Eligibility to Work Form - Issuance; Scope.

Section 25-8-46Eligibility to work form - Issuance; scope. (a) The head administrator, counselor, or, if home schooled an instructor, of the school which the minor attends, shall issue eligibility to work forms. No person employed by any person, entity, franchise, corporation, or division of a corporation employing minors may issue an eligibility to work form. (b) An eligibility to work form shall allow the employment of a person 14 or 15 years of age who is doing satisfactory school work to work only outside school hours or during vacation periods, and only in occupations not prohibited by this chapter for persons of these ages.  (Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §15; Act 2009-565, p. 1654, §3.)