Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-125 - Nonagricultural employment of minors › MASTER BUSINESS LICENSE/MINOR WORK PERMIT ENDORSEMENT › Section 296-125-024 - House-to-house sales

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Minimum
				age. No minor under the age of sixteen years may be employed in house-to-house
				sales, unless the department grants a variance to an employer for that specific
				purpose. A variance must be obtained prior to an employer's employment of any
				minor under the age of sixteen.
(2)
				Registration certificates. Each employer of minors in house-to-house sales, or
				person seeking to advertise to employ a person in house-to-house sales with an
				advertisement specifically stating a minimum age requirement that is under the
				age of twenty-one, shall receive from the department, and shall maintain, a
				valid house-to-house sales registration certificate prior to employing a
				sixteen- or seventeen-year-old minor for house-to-house sales and prior to
				advertising for employment.
Employers also must obtain and maintain a valid minor work
				  permit, pursuant to WAC 296-125-020 [296-125-0200], and parent/school
				  authorization forms, pursuant to WAC 296-125-126 [296-125-0260], prior to
				  employing minors for house-to-house sales. If an employer seeks to transport a
				  minor out of the state of Washington for house-to-house sales, the employer
				  must obtain and keep on file express written authorization from each minor's
				  parent or legal guardian to transport each minor worker out of the state for
				  house-to-house sales.
A valid registration certificate and a valid minor work
				  permit must remain in full force and effect at all times that minors are
				  employed by the employer. When duly issued by the department, and unless
				  modified, suspended, or revoked, such a certificate will authorize the employer
				  to employ any number of sixteen- or seventeen-year-old minors for
				  house-to-house sales in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and in
				  accordance with any limitations listed on the certificate.
(3) Adult supervision requirements.
(a) The employer shall ensure that there is
				one adult supervisor for every five minor employees employed in house-to-house
				sales during all work hours. A supervisor may not supervise more than one group
				of five minor employees.
(b) The
				employer shall ensure that each supervisor of minor employees is a responsible
				adult who is at least twenty-one years of age.
(c) The employer shall ensure that each
				supervisor has contact, personally or verbally, with each minor employee at
				least once every fifteen minutes. The contact with minor employees may be made
				by remote means such as telephone or walkie-talkie, but in any case shall be of
				such a nature as to provide assurance of the minor's health, safety, and
				welfare. The employer shall ensure that each supervisor is within one-half mile
				of each supervised minor employee during all working hours.
(d) The employer shall ensure that each minor
				employee is returned by the employer or its agent to the minor's home or
				initial point of contact promptly at the end of the minor's work hours. If the
				minor is returned to the initial point of contact, the employer shall ensure
				that the location selected is one in which the minor's safety is the first and
				foremost consideration. Minors shall be protected from risks of injury
				including, but not limited to, moving vehicles.