Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Workforce Development › DWD 270-279 - Labor Standards › Chapter DWD 270 - Child Labor › Section DWD 270.10 - Minimum ages in various employments

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) 14 YEARS OF AGE
				AND OLDER. A minor who is 14 years of age or older may not be employed during
				the hours that the minor is required to attend school under s.
				118.15,
				Stats., unless the minor has graduated from high school, passed the general
				education development test, or is participating in an approved high school or
				vocational school work training or work experience program for which proper
				scholastic credit is given, except that any minor may be employed in public
				exhibitions as provided in s.
				103.78,
				Stats.
(2) UNDER 14 YEARS OF AGE. A
				minor under 14 years of age may not be employed or permitted to work in any
				gainful occupation at any time, except that a minor under 14 years of age may
				be employed or permitted to work as follows to the extent permitted under the
				federal Fair Labor Standards Act,
				29
				USC 201 to
				219:
(a)
School lunch.
Minors 12
				years of age or older may be employed in school lunch programs of the school
				that they attend.
(b)
Public exhibitions.
Minors under 14 years of age may be
				employed in public exhibitions as provided in s.
				103.78,
				Stats.
(c)
Street trades
				and fundraising.
Minors 12 years of age or older may be employed in
				street trades, and any minor may work in fund-raising sales for nonprofit
				organizations, public schools, or private schools, as provided in ss.
				103.21
				to
				103.31,
				Stats.
(d)
Caddies on golf
				courses.
Minors 12 and 13 years of age may be employed as caddies on
				golf courses, if they use caddy carts.
(e)
Farming.
Minors 12 years
				of age or older may be employed in farming.
(f)
Domestic employment.
Minors 12 years of age or older may be employed in and around a home in work
				usual to the home of the employer, if the work is not in connection with or a
				part of the business, trade, or profession of the employer and the type of
				employment is not specifically prohibited by ss.
				103.64
				to
				103.82, Stats., or this
				chapter.
(g)
Parents or
				guardians employing their own children.
Minors 12 years of age or
				older may be employed under the direct supervision of the minor's parent or
				guardian in connection with the parent's or guardian's business, trade, or
				profession if the minor would otherwise not be prohibited from being employed
				in the same job at age 14.
(h)
Football sideline officials.
Minors 12 and 13 years of age may
				be employed as sideline officials to operate chains and the sideline marker for
				high school football games.
(i)
Officials for privately-sponsored athletic events.
Minors 12
				and 13 years of age may be employed under direct adult supervision as officials
				for athletic events sponsored by private, nonprofit organizations in which the
				minor would be eligible to participate or in which the participants are the
				same age as or younger than the minor.
(j)
Football ball monitors.
Minors 11 to 13 years of age may be employed as ball monitors at high school
				football games and practices.
(k)
Restitution or community service.
Minors under 14 years of age
				may be employed as participants in a restitution project under s.
				938.245(2)
				(a) 5, 938.32(1t) (a), 938.34(5), or 938.345,
				Stats., in a supervised work program or other community service work under s.
				938.245(2)
				(a) 6, 938.32(1t) (b), 938.34(5g),
				938.343(3), or 938.345, Stats., or in the community service component of a
				youth report center program under s.
				938.245(2)
				(a) 9m, 938.32(1p), 938.34(7j), 938.342(1d)
				(c) or (1g) (k), 938.343(3m), 938.344(2g) (a) 5, 938.345, or 938.355(6) (d) 5.
				or (6m) (a) 4, Stats.