Bill Text: MI HB4732 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Labor; youth employment; youth employment standards; revise maximum number of hours a minor may work. Amends sec. 11 of 1978 PA 90 (MCL 409.111).

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)

Status: (Passed) 2011-10-19 - Assigned Pa 197'11 With Immediate Effect [HB4732 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4732-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 197

Public Acts of 2011

Approved by the Governor

October 17, 2011

Filed with the Secretary of State

October 18, 2011

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 18, 2011

STATE OF MICHIGAN

96TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2011

Introduced by Reps. Stamas, Roy Schmidt, Denby, Heise, LeBlanc, Pettalia and Wayne Schmidt

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4732

AN ACT to amend 1978 PA 90, entitled “An act to provide for the legal employment and protection of minors; to provide for the issuance and revocation of work permits; to provide for the regulation of hours and conditions of employment of minors; to prescribe powers and duties of the departments of labor and education; to provide for the enforcement of this act; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 11 (MCL 409.111), as amended by 2000 PA 418.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 11. (1) Except as provided in subsection (3), a person shall not employ a minor 16 years of age or older in an occupation subject to this act for more than any of the following periods:

(a) Six days in 1 week.

(b) An average of 8 hours per day in 1 week.

(c) Ten hours in 1 day.

(d) Subject to subdivision (e), 48 hours in 1 week.

(e) If the minor is a student in school and school is in session, 24 hours in 1 week.

(2) Except as provided in subsection (3), a person shall not employ a minor 16 years of age or older between 10:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. However, except as provided in subsection (3), a person may employ a minor 16 years of age or older who is a student in school until 11:30 p.m. on any of the following days:

(a) On Fridays and Saturdays.

(b) During school vacation periods.

(c) During periods when the minor is not regularly enrolled in school.

(3) A person may employ a minor 16 years of age or older in farming operations involved in the production of seed or in agricultural processing for a period greater than the periods described in subsections (1) and (2) if all of the following conditions are met:

(a) If the minor is a student in school, the period greater than the periods described in subsections (1) and (2) occurs when school is not in session.

(b) The minor is employed for not more than 11 hours in 1 day.

(c) The minor is employed for not more than 62 hours in any week. However, the employer shall not require the minor to work more than 48 hours during any week without the consent of the minor.

(d) The minor is not employed between 2 a.m. and 5:30 a.m.

(e) The agricultural processing employer maintains on file a written acknowledgment of the minor’s parent or guardian consenting to the period of employment authorized under this subsection.

(4) As used in this section:

(a) “Agricultural processing” means the cleaning, sorting, or packaging of fruits or vegetables.

(b) “Farming operations involved in the production of seed” means farming activities and research involved in the production of seed, including plant detasseling, hand-pollination, roguing, or hoeing, and any other similar farming activity required for commercial seed production.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor