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Youth Labor Law Rights! Know them...
Minimum Wage
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Effective
January 1, 2008, the Colorado minimum wage is $7.02 per hour
or $4.00 per hour plus tips using the tip credit formula.
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Your employer may not deduct from your wages for breakage, cash
shortages, tools and uniforms. Some exceptions to this rule are allowed.
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Employers must pay you regularly, either weekly, every other week
or monthly. You must be given a statement listing any deductions from
your paycheck, such as taxes, etc.
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In most jobs, you must be given at least a 30-minute unpaid meal
period after 5 hours of working. You are also entitled to a paid
10-minute break every 4 hours.
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If your employer calls you into work but has no work for you when
you arrive and ends up sending you home, your employer is only required
to pay you for the actual hours you were required to be present and/or
working.
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If you are
fired or laid off, your employer must immediately pay you all the wages
you have earned. If you quit or resign, your final paycheck should be
paid on the next regular payday.
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You have a right to a safe workplace! You can’t be required to
perform dangerous jobs.
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The minimum age for employment in most industries is 14 years of
age. Youth 14 and 15 may work outside school hours in various
non-manufacturing, non-mining and non-hazardous jobs.
Hazardous Occupations.
Youth
under the age of 18
cannot be involved with:
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manufacturing or
storing explosives
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Driving a motor
vehicle and being an outside helper, except under certain conditions
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Mining (with some
exceptions for coal mining), logging, sawmilling, oil drilling or
quarrying.
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Power-driven
machinery, including wood working machines; hoisting equipment;
metal forming, punching and shearing machines; bakery machines;
paper-product machines; circular saws, band saws and guillotine
shears; large deep fat fryers; automatic pin-setting machines.*
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Exposure to
radioactive substances and to ionizing radiations
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Slaughter of
livestock and meat packing or processing (including power-driven
meat slicing machines)
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Manufacturing brick,
tile and related products
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Wrecking or
demolition (not including manual auto wrecking)
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Roofing operations or
any work that involves the risk of falling from any elevated place
located ten feet or more above the ground.*
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Excavation
operations*
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Operation of any high
pressure steam boiler or high temperature water boiler.
*Limited exemptions
are provided for apprentices and student-learner under specified
standards
Federal
Labor
Laws For Young Workers
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14 & 15
Year Olds
May be employed up to 3
hours on a school day or 18 hours during a school
week.
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May be
employed up to 8 hours on a non-school day or 40 hours in a
non-school week.
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May not work
during school hours and may not begin work before 7 AM or
end after 7 PM except from June 1 through Labor Day when
evening hours are extended to 9 PM.
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16 & 17
Year Olds in Colorado (who do not have a high school
diploma or a GED) may be employed no more than 8 hours per
day and 40 hours per week.
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18 Year
Olds may work any job for unlimited hours.
These federal labor
laws apply to businesses that have annual sales exceeding $500,000.
Employees who are engaged in interstate commerce (getting
authorization for credit cards from out of state, for example) are
also covered by federal labor laws regardless of the annual sales of
the business that employs them.
Driving
Restrictions
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If you are injured on the job, tell your employer
right away.
Your employer has an obligation to provide you with employer-paid
medical treatment according to State Workers’ Compensation. If you have
questions, call (303) 575-8700.
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You have a right to be free from
physical, racial, sexual or religious harassment and/or abuse at your
work.
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