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Job and School
Can Your Teen Handle Both? By Deborah Boehle
Wegman recalls the recent death of a 15-year-old worker who was being supervised by a 16-year-old worker in Massachusetts. "Neither of them were very knowledgeable about any risks," he explains.
"Youth are working in jobs that are particularly on the front lines of interacting with the public, where they can 
also be subject to verbal abuse and sexual harassment," Wegman says. "It's tough for kids to be in a position to resist that or understand it."
Furthermore, teens will often perform dangerous tasks because they usually do not know the laws and because they want to be good workers. Unfortunately, Wegman says, teens are twice as likely as adults to be injured on the job.
The Fair Labor Standards Act prohibits minors from driving a car or truck, operating tractors or other heavy equipment and using power tools, among other more obvious prohibitions such as coal mining, logging, meat packing and manufacturing explosives. There are also hour limitations based on a teen's age. Youth ages 14 and 15 may work up to three hours on a school day and eight hours on a non-school day for a total of 18 hours in a school week or 40 hours in a non-school week.
