TO: Superintendents of Schools
FROM: Mark K. McQuillan,
Commissioner of Education
DATE: June 10, 2008
SUBJECT: Working Papers for Fifteen-Year-Old Minors in
Mercantile Establishments
This memo is to inform
you that Governor M. Jodi Rell has signed Public Act
08-108, An Act Concerning Minors in the Workplace. This act, effective
June 2, 2008, restores the provision to Connecticut General Statutes Section
31-23(b) that allows a minor who has reached the age of fifteen to be employed
or permitted to work in any mercantile establishment, as a bagger, cashier or
stock clerk, as long as the employment is:
•
limited to periods of school vacation during which school is not in
session for five consecutive days or
more, except that such minor employed in a retail food store may work on any
Saturday during the year;
•
for not more than
forty hours in any week;
•
for not more than
eight hours in any day; and
•
between the hours of seven o'clock in the morning and seven o'clock
in the evening, except that from July
first to the first Monday in September in any year, any such minor may be
employed until nine o'clock in the evening.
Therefore, you can now
issue Working Papers (ED 301) to fifteen-year-olds to be employed in mercantile
establishments. If you have any questions, you can call or e-mail Carl Paternostro at (860) 807-2110 or carl.paternostro@ct.gov.
MKM:cpp
cc: Charlene Russell-Tucker, Associate
Commissioner
High School Principals
Designated Agents for
Working Papers
Link to act
Box 2219 - Hartford, Connecticut
06145 An Equal Opportunity Employer