Young Workers: use this comprehensive toolkit to help you make the most of your work experiences, and learn about your rights and responsibilities. These resources will also help your parents, educators, and employers better understand federal laws involving youth employment.
- Bookmark: What Jobs Can I do? When Can I work? (Non-Agriculture)
- Bookmark: What Jobs Can Agricultural Workers Do? (Non-Agriculture)
- Internship Programs Under the FLSA: Provides general information to help determine whether interns and students working for “for-profit” employers are entitled to minimum wages and overtime pay under the FLSA.
- Know Your Rights Videos: Watch this video series in English and Spanish to learn useful information applicable in different scenarios that workers encounter in the workplace. They include information on federal minimum wage, overtime, and compensable work time.
- Presentations
- Public Service Announcements: Encourage your local radio stations (or your school’s announcement system) to air these Child Labor public service announcements. One announcement is for non-agricultural work and the other is for agricultural work. Both announcements are also available in Spanish.
- RecordKeeper: Use this calendar to track your hours and help you understand your overtime rate.
- Work Hours Calendar: Use this calendar to track your work hours.
- Youth Employment Guide: Use this guide to learn about where you can and cannot work, both in agricultural and non-agricultural jobs. Fits in a 3-ring binder. Order a hard copy of the Guide by selecting publication # WH1005 from our publication ordering system.
- Flyers
- Bookmark: What Jobs Can I do? When Can I work? (Non-Agriculture)
- Bookmark: What Jobs Can Agricultural Workers Do? (Non-Agriculture)
- Drop-in articles for school newspapers
- Internship Programs Under the FLSA: Provides general information to help determine whether interns and students working for “for-profit” employers are entitled to minimum wages and overtime pay under the FLSA.
- Know Your Rights Videos: This video series in English and Spanish provides young workers with useful basic information in different scenarios that workers encounter in the workplace. They include information on federal minimum wage, overtime, and compensable work time.
- Presentations
- Public Service Announcements: Encourage your local radio stations (or your school’s announcement system) to air these child labor public service announcements. One announcement is for non-agricultural work and the other is for agricultural work. Both announcements are also available in Spanish.
- RecordKeeper: A calendar to track your hours and help you understand your overtime rate.
- Work Hours Calendar: A calendar to track your work hours.
- Youth Employment FAQs for School-Based Vocational Education Programs: Learn about school-Based Vocational Education Programs in Secondary Education.
- Youth Employment Guide: A guide for teens to learn about where they can and cannot work, both in agricultural and non-agricultural jobs. Fits in a 3-ring binder. Order a hard copy of the Guide by selecting publication # WH1005 from our publication ordering system.
- Presentations
- Stickers: Special stickers to place on hazardous equipment to alert all non-agricultural workers that no one under 18 years of age may operate the equipment. The stickers are available in Adobe PDF format. You can view and print this sticker using Adobe Acrobat Reader version 5 or later available as a free download. You may choose to print either a single sticker (approx. size 4 1/2" x 4 1/2") at a time using Avery 5265 or other full sheet stock, or print six per page using 3 1/3" x 4" labels like Avery 5514, 5524, 8164, or 6464. Click on the "Stop" sticker format you wish to print. (Do not use the browser's print function.)
- Drop-in articles for employer bulletins
- eLaws – Child Labor Rules: Provides guidelines for the employment of workers under the age of 18 in non-agricultural occupations.
- Employer’s Pocket Guide on Youth Employment (also available in Spanish)
- Agricultural Employer’s Pocket Guide on Youth Employment (also available in Spanish)
- Employer Self-Assessment Tool for Child Labor – Helps employers comply with the child labor provisions by providing guidance for employers to evaluate their level of compliance.
- Internship Programs Under the FLSA: Provides general information to help determine whether interns and students working for “for-profit” employers are entitled to minimum wages and overtime pay under the FLSA.
- Public Service Announcements: Encourage your local radio stations to air these Child Labor public service announcements. One announcement is for non-agricultural work and the other is for agricultural work. Both announcements are also available in Spanish.
- Watch and Learn – FLSA Compliance Videos: These brief, plain-language explanations of FLSA requirements strip away the “legalese” and provide employers the basic information they need to understand their obligations and to comply with the law.
Wage and Hour Fact Sheets are written in easy-to-understand language and contain valuable information about the rules for young workers.
Child Labor
- Amusement Parks — Provides the child labor requirements for child labor in amusement parks and recreational establishments.
- Cooking and Baking — Information concerning cooking and baking activities under the federal child labor provisions.
- Driving Automobiles and Trucks — General information concerning the application for the federal provisions for driving motor vehicles.
- Employing Youth In Restaurants — Provides general information concerning the application to child labor in restaurants and quick service establishments.
- Farm Jobs —Answers questions concerning child labor in agriculture.
- Grocery Stores — Provides general information concerning child labor in super markets and grocery stores.
- Polish Version (PDF)
- Health Care — Information concerning employing young workers in the health care industry.
- Lifeguards — Requirements for child labor under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
- Nonagricultural Occupations — General information concerning employment in non-agricultural occupations.
- Power-Driven Balers and Compactors — General information concerning child labor as it relates to loading, unloading and operation of scrap paper balers and paper box compactors.
- Recreation Establishments —Provides the child labor requirements for child labor in amusement parks and recreational establishments.
- Roofing and work on or about a roof (PDF) — Provides information on the employment of minors in roofing activities and on roofs.
- Teen Driving (PDF) — Explains the child labor requirements for minors to operate motor vehicles.
- Spanish Version (PDF)
- Wood Processing Industries — Preliminary guidance concerning changes under the FLSA that impact employment of minors exempt from compulsory school attendance laws in businesses where machine process wood products.
- Youth Employment FAQs for School-Based Vocational Education Programs
- Youth Peddling Under the FLSA – Provides general information concerning youth peddling, also known as door-to-door sales.
Wages and Hours
- Basic Information (PDF) – Provides a summary of several laws enforced by the Wage and Hour Divison.
- Spanish Version (PDF)
- Internship Programs Under the FLSA - General information to help determine whether interns and students working for “for-profit” employers are entitled to minimum wages and overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
- Hours Worked Under the FLSA – General information concerning what constitutes compensable time under the FLSA.
- Chinese Version (PDF)
- Haitian Creole Version (PDF)
- Korean Version (PDF)
- Samoan Version (PDF)
- Spanish Version
- Thai Version (PDF)
- Vietnamese Version (PDF)
- Overtime Pay Requirements of the FLSA – General information concerning the application of the overtime pay provisions of the FLSA.
- Chinese Version (PDF)
- Haitian Creole Version (PDF)
- Korean Version (PDF)
- Russian Version (PDF)
- Spanish Version
- Thai Version (PDF)
- Vietnamese Version (PDF)
- Recordkeeping Requirements Under the FLSA — Summary of the FLSA’s recordkeeping requirements.
- Chinese Version (PDF)
- Korean Version (PDF)
- Spanish Version
- Thai Version (PDF)
- Vietnamese Version (PDF)
- Regular Rate of Pay Under the FLSA — Provides general information about Wage and Hour Investigations.
- Visits to Employers — Provides general information about Wage and Hour Investigations.
- Youth Minimum Wage – Fair Labor Standards Act – Provides a summary of the youth minimum wage.
- Chinese Version (PDF)
- Korean Version (PDF)
- Thai Version (PDF)
- Vietnamese Version (PDF)
