§215.  Minors; minors under sixteen; prohibited hours; maximum work week

A.(1)  No minor sixteen years of age who has not graduated from high school shall be employed, or permitted, or suffered to work between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. prior to the start of any school day.

(2)  No minor seventeen years of age who has not graduated from high school shall be employed, or permitted, or suffered to work between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. prior to the start of any school day.

B.  No minor under sixteen years of age who has not graduated from high school shall be employed, or permitted, or suffered to work between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.; except from June first through Labor Day at which time the permissible hours are extended to 9:00 p.m.  Minors who are employed in the dairy industry shall be exempt from the provisions of this Section.

C.  No minor under sixteen years of age who has not graduated from high school shall be employed, or permitted, or suffered to work in, about, or in connection with any occupation, more than forty hours in any one week.

D.  For purposes of this Section, a school day is a day during which school is in session as designated by the local school superintendent for the school district in which the minor  resides.

E.  For purposes of this Section, a minor who has taken and passed a General Education Development test (GED) and who has been awarded a high school Equivalency Diploma from the Louisiana Department of Education will be considered to have graduated from high school.

F.  Employment pursuant to this Section shall be subject to the provisions of any  local curfew ordinance.

Amended by Acts 1950, No. 500, §1; Acts 1962, No. 265, §1; Acts 1966, No. 307, §1; Acts 1976, No. 624, §2, eff. Aug. 4, 1976; Acts 1982, No. 498, §1; Acts 1993, No. 621, §1, eff. June 15, 1993; Acts 2003, No. 671, §1, eff. June 27, 2003; Acts 2004, No. 524, §1; Acts 2011, No. 177, §1.