What is the legal age for minors to work in France, and how are they restricted?
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Minors? There's not even enough jobs for adults, let alone minors.
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If you hire someone that is under 16, they can only work until 8 or 9, and they can only work a few hours at a time.
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Depends on the state you live in.  Some stats have laws for children to work.  Try the mall, local stores, babysitting, tutoring, cleaning houses.  Plus you are limited to how many hours you can work.  the average state legal age for working on papers is 14 years of age.  Please jsut check your state.  Stay positive and blessed\n\nTY
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Labor Laws\n\nIt's not always as easy as it would seem for a teenager to get a job. There are laws restricting when you can work and what you can do.  Teens hired for nonagricultural employment (which is just about everything other than farm work) must be at least fourteen.  Other restrictions also apply:\n\n    *\n\n      Ages 14 and 15:  During the school year, hours are limited to 3 hours a day and 18 hours a week.  On days when there's no school and in the summer, working hours increase to 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week.  There are limits on when you can work, too - no later than 7 p.m. during the school year and no later than 9 p.m. between June 1 and Labor Day.\n    *\n\n      Ages 16 and 17:  There's no limit on hours, but, if you're under 18 you can't work in a job that the Labor Department considers hazardous.
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Child Labor Laws are federally mandated, so it dosent matter what state your in.  The answer to your question is you cant employ children under 14 or 15.  Its tricky with family businesses, however.
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Most state have laws about anyone under 18 & work. Also, many states will require a work permit. You should be able to get all the information you need from your school or employment office.\n\nHere is an example of the typical rules (from California)\n\nFourteen and fifteen-year-olds may be employed in the following occupations in the food service and retail industries:\n\n• Office and clerical work, including the operation of office machines.\n• Cashiering, selling, modeling, art work, work in advertising departments, window trimming, and comparative shopping.\n• Price marking and tagging by hand or by machine, assembling orders, packing and shelving.\n• Bagging and carrying out customers orders.\n• Errand and delivery work by foot, bicycle, or public transportation.\n• Cleanup work, including the use of vacuum cleaners and floor waxers, and maintenance of grounds, but not including the use of power-driven mowers or cutters.\n• Kitchen work and other work involved in preparing and serving food and beverages, including the operation of machines and devices used in the performance of this work, including but not limited to, dishwashers, toasters, dumbwaiters, popcorn poppers, milkshake blenders, and coffee grinders.\n• Cleaning vegetables and fruits, and wrapping, sealing, labeling, weighing, pricing, and stocking goods when performed in areas physically separate from areas where meat is prepared for sale and outside freezers or meat coolers.\n\nIndiana puts it differently - they say what you CAN'T do - \n\n14 and 15 Years of Age\n\nIssuing officers shall not issue work permits for, and employers shall not employ, minors 14 and 15 years of age to engage in any of the following occupations:\n\n* Any manufacturing occupation\n* Any mining occupation\n\n* Processing occupations such as filleting of fish, dressing poultry, cracking nuts, or laundering as performed by commercial laundries and dry cleaning (except in a retail, food service, or gasoline service establishment, and under the restrictions provided for those establishments)\n\n* Occupations requiring the performance of any duties in workrooms or workplaces where goods are manufactured, mined or otherwise processed (except in a retail, food service, or gasoline service establishment, and under the restrictions provided for those establishments)\n* Public messenger service\n\n* Operation or tending of hoisting apparatus or of any power-driven machinery (other than office machines and certain machines in retail, food service, or gasoline service establishments, and under the restrictions provided for those establishments)\n* Any occupations found and declared to be hazardous\n* Occupations in connection with:\n  o Transportation of persons or property by rail, highway, air, on water, pipeline, or other means\n  o Warehousing and storage\n  o Communications and public utilities, and\n  o Construction, including repair (except office or sales work in connection with these occupations when not performed on transportation media or at the actual construction site)\n\n* Any of the following occupations in a retail, food service, or gasoline service establishment:\no Work performed in or about boiler or engine rooms\no Work in connection with maintenance or repair of the establishment, machines or equipment\no Outside window washing that involves working from window sills, and all work requiring the use of ladders, scaffolds, or their substitutes\no Cooking (except at soda fountains, lunch counters, snack bars, or cafeteria serving counters) and baking\no Occupations which involve operating, setting up, adjusting, cleaning, oiling or repairing power-driven food slicers and grinders, food choppers and cutters, and bakery-type mixers\no Work in freezers and meat coolers in preparation of meats for sale (except wrapping, sealing, labeling, weighing, pricing, and stocking when performed in other areas)\no Loading and unloading goods to and from trucks, railroad car
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060606/france_working_seniors.html?.v=1\n\nIs this it?\n\nFrench Government to Promote Jobs for Older Workers \n\n\nPARIS (AP) -- France's government on Tuesday unveiled a plan to fight unemployment among workers aged 55-64 and encourage companies to keep senior citizens on their payroll.\nThe key measure of the bill is a temporary work contract for unemployed people over age 57. The 18-month contract, renewable once, is intended to give companies more flexibility if they hire older workers, who are often overlooked in favor of younger, cheaper hires.\n \nAnother provision would abolish a tax on companies that fire workers over 50. The government says the tax penalizes older workers by discouraging companies to take them on.\n\nThe plan would also eventually prohibit companies from forcing employees to retire before age 65.\n\n"For 25 years, seniors have too often been left by the side of the road," Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said, explaining the plan.\n\nOnly 37.3 percent of French people between the ages of 55 and 64 are employed, one of the lowest rates in Europe. The government hopes to bring that figure up to 50 percent in four years.\n\nEarlier this year, Villepin put forward another job plan meant to reduce youth unemployment. But that move triggered weeks of massive protests by students and labor unions that weakened the conservative government. Villepin eventually scrapped the measure.\n\n\nI think you need to be more specific w/ your question.
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The previous posters are partially correct. It depends on the state you live in. Check out this link and find the minimum age you need to be according to Child Labor Laws in your state.\n\nhttp://www.dol.gov/esa/programs/whd/state/agriemp2.htm
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16 with a work permit
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I live in the US & I was unaware until recently that it was illegal to fire someone in France...unless theres "just cause". What is just cause anyway?! It's no wonder France is such an unproductive nation. Between their socialist government & huge vacation time & inability to fire the incompetant, it's a wonder anything gets done at all. \n\nSo to answer your questions:\n1. I think new jobs will be created because an employer will be able to take a risk on hiring a young person instead of adopting them for life.\n2. I think the only youth who should be distessed are the ones who dont work hard & well enough to keep their jobs.\n3. I think to have restrictive firing laws is unfair to the French in an increasingly global economy.\n4. I dont know enough about French society or politics to venture a guess on this one. It's my feeling that some people just like to protest anything.
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Sorry, dude. I think you gotta be 14. Here's where it says so in Virginia employment law...\n\nTITLE 40.1.  LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT  \nCHAPTER 5.  CHILD LABOR\n\n§ 40.1-88.  Work-training certificate \n\n   A work-training certificate shall permit the employment of a child between fourteen and sixteen years of age during school hours when enrolled in a regular school work-training program pursuant to a written agreement containing the same provisions as specified in § 40.1-89.
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Laws vary by state, but must meet these standards set by the federal law:\n\n"Youths age 14 and 15 may work outside school hours in various nonmanufacturing, nonmining, nonhazardous jobs under the following conditions: no more than three hours on a school day, 18 hours in a school week, eight hours on a non-school day, or 40 hours in a non-school week. In addition, they may not begin work before 7 a.m. or work after 7 p.m., except from June 1 through Labor Day, when evening hours are extended until 9 p.m. Those enrolled in an approved Work Experience and Career Exploration Program (WECEP) may work up to 23 hours in school weeks and three hours on school days (including during school hours)."\n\nSource: http://www.dol.gov/compliance/guide/childlbr.htm#BasicPro
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the child labor laws are really weird.  like you can pretty much start working at a family business or a farm as soon as you can walk (you can even get a drivers licence at like 12 if your parents are farmers).  generally though i think you can start working at 13 but you can't work many hours.  there's other weird jobs like a paper route you can have before then.
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Georgia State Law minimum employment age is 12 yrs of age. Federal is 14 yrs of age (link 1).\n\nHowever, there are restrictions on employment for youth at certain ages depending on certain criteria. For more detail, view link 2 below.\n\nFor all information about Child Labor in Georgia, visit link 3.\n\nI hope this helps.
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A lot depends on what state you live in. Most state have laws about anyone under 18 & work. Also, many states will require a work permit. You should be able to get all the information you need from your school or employment office.\n\nHere is an example of the typical rules (from California)\n\nFourteen and fifteen-year-olds may be employed in the following occupations in the food service and retail industries:\n\n• Office and clerical work, including the operation of office machines.\n• Cashiering, selling, modeling, art work, work in advertising departments, window trimming, and comparative shopping.\n• Price marking and tagging by hand or by machine, assembling orders, packing and shelving.\n• Bagging and carrying out customers orders.\n• Errand and delivery work by foot, bicycle, or public transportation.\n• Cleanup work, including the use of vacuum cleaners and floor waxers, and maintenance of grounds, but not including the use of power-driven mowers or cutters.\n• Kitchen work and other work involved in preparing and serving food and beverages, including the operation of machines and devices used in the performance of this work, including but not limited to, dishwashers, toasters, dumbwaiters, popcorn poppers, milkshake blenders, and coffee grinders.\n• Cleaning vegetables and fruits, and wrapping, sealing, labeling, weighing, pricing, and stocking goods when performed in areas physically separate from areas where meat is prepared for sale and outside freezers or meat coolers.
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you need to obtain an application from the place you want to work.. usually, you'll need parental approval - you're under 16 yrs of age.
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Actually, children start as young as they can find employers around the globe. \n\nAnyway, in the US, it's believed that if kids work, so manage their own finances, from a younger age, it will improve their chances of knowing how to handle larger sums later on; besides, it's experience. \n\nMany other countries allow employment of children under 18 years of age. I think most places, if one is over 14, one can get work even without his/her parents' explicit permission. There are rules regarding children exploitation, but... sometimes, working for the summer is much better than staying at home.