[Youth-list] Law governing work by 15 year olds expired...

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     (http://www.nhregister.com/site/News.cfm?brd=1281)       10/22/2007  Law 
 allowing 15-year-olds to work expired Oct. 1   Associated  Press 
HARTFORD — A state law that allowed  15-year-olds to work in grocery stores 
as baggers, shelf stockers  and cashiers has expired, apparently because 
lawmakers forgot to  renew it. 
 
The 20-year-old law had  to be renewed every five years, and lawmakers didn’t 
do that last  session, allowing it to expire Oct. 1.

"New 15-year-olds will  have to wait until we convene for the next session," 
said state Sen.  Edith G. Prague, D-Columbia, the co-chairman of the 
legislature’s  Labor Committee.

Those 15-year-olds who had working papers  from their school guidance offices 
before Sept. 30 may still  continue working in grocery stores, she said.

Carrie  Anastasiades, executive director of the Connecticut Food  
Association, which represents grocers and supermarkets, said she  does not know how many 
15-year-olds are working, or normally apply  to work at grocery stores.

"Fifteen-year-olds don’t amount to  a significant portion of those who work 
as cashiers and baggers, but  they do work," she said.

State work rules prohibit  15-year-olds from touching meet slicers or other 
machinery, and  their work hours are limited to three hours on school days and 
eight  hours on weekends and school vacations.

There are some other  options. State law says kids as young as 14 can work as 
golf  caddies; in agriculture; hospitals, convalescent homes, hotels and  
motels, except food service and laundry work; for summer camps; and  
baby-sitting, newspaper delivery and household chores.  



     
 





 
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