Bill Text: MI SB0025 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Engrossed

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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: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-12 - Referred To Committee On Labor [SB0025 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-SB0025-Engrossed.html

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SB-0025, As Passed Senate, May 12, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE BILL No. 25

 

 

January 27, 2009, Introduced by Senator STAMAS and referred to the Committee on Economic Development and Regulatory Reform.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 90, entitled

 

"Youth employment standards act,"

 

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 shall not be

 

employed in an occupation subject to this act for more than any of

 

the following periods:

 

     (a) Six days in 1 week.

 

     (b) A period longer than a weekly An average of 8 hours per

 

day or 48 hours in 1 week.

 

     (c) Ten hours in 1 day.

 

     (d) For a minor 16 years of age or older who Subject to

 

subdivision (e), 48 hours in 1 week.

 

     (e) If the minor is a student in school , a combined school

 

and work week of 48 hours during the period school is in session

 

and school is in session, 20 hours in 1 week.

 

     (2) Except as provided in subsection (3), a person shall not

 

employ a minor 16 years of age or older shall not be employed

 

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 may be employed 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 may

 

be employed 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 shall not

 

be required by an employer 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.