March 19, 2003, Introduced by Senators STAMAS, THOMAS, SWITALSKI, KUIPERS, BARCIA, ALLEN, VAN WOERKOM, CHERRY, CASSIS, BROWN and PATTERSON and referred to the Committee on Economic Development, Small Business 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:
1 Sec. 11. (1) Except as provided in subsection (3), a minor
2 16 years of age or older shall not be employed in an occupation
3 subject to this act for more than any of the following periods:
4 (a) Six days in 1 week.
5 (b) A period longer than a weekly average of 8 hours per day
6 or 48 hours in 1 week.
7 (c) Ten hours in 1 day.
8 (d) For a minor 16 years of age or older who is a student in
9 school, a combined
school and work week of 48 hours during the
10 period school is in
session total of 20 hours per
week or 24
11 hours per week with the written consent of the minor's parent or
1 guardian during the period school is in session.
2 (2) Except as provided in subsection (3), a minor 16 years of
3 age or older shall not be employed between 10:30 p.m. and 6 a.m.
4 However, except as provided in subsection (3), a minor 16 years
5 of age or older who is a student in school may be employed until
6 11:30 p.m. on any of the following days:
7 (a) On Fridays and Saturdays.
8 (b) During school vacation periods.
9 (c) During periods when the minor is not regularly enrolled
10 in school.
11 (3) A minor 16 years
of age or older may be employed in
12 farming operations
involved in the production of seed or in
13 agricultural
processing for a period greater than
the periods
14 described in subsections (1) and (2) if all of the following
15 conditions are met:
16 (a) If the minor is a student in school, the period greater
17 than the periods described in subsections (1) and (2) occurs when
18 school is not in session.
19 (b) The minor is employed for not more than 11 hours in 1
20 day.
21 (c) The minor is employed for not more than 62 hours in any
22 week. However, the minor shall not be required by an employer to
23 work more than 48 hours during any week without the consent of
24 the minor.
25 (d) The minor is not employed between 2 a.m. and 5:30 a.m.
26 (e) The agricultural
processing employer maintains on file
27 a written acknowledgment of the minor's parent or guardian
1 consenting to the period of employment authorized under this
2 subsection.
3 (4) As used in
this section:
4 (a)
"Agricultural processing" means the cleaning, sorting, or
5 packaging of fruits or
vegetables.
6 (b) "Farming
operations involved in the production of seed"
7 means farming
activities and research involved in the production
8 of seed, including
plant detasseling, hand-pollination, roguing,
9 or hoeing, and any
other similar farming activity required for
10 commercial seed
production.