Fourteen is the minimum age for most nonfarm work. However, at any age, youths may deliver newspapers; perform in radio, television, movie, or theatrical productions; work for parents in their solely-owned nonfarm business (except in manufacturing or on hazardous jobs); or, gather evergreens and make evergreen wreaths.

Farm Jobs (Child Labor)

In farm work, permissible jobs and hours of work, by age, are as follows:

• Youths 16 years and older may perform any job, whether hazardous or not, for unlimited hours;
• Youths 14 and 15 years old may perform any nonhazardous farm job outside of school hours;
• Youths 12 and 13 years old may work outside of school hours in nonhazardous jobs, either with a parent's written consent or on the same farm as the parent(s);
• Youths under 12 years old may perform jobs on farms owned or operated by parent(s), or with a parent's written consent, outside of school hours in nonhazardous jobs on farms not covered by minimum wage requirements.

Minors of any age may be employed by their parents at any time in any occupation on a farm owned or operated by their parents.

Recordkeeping

The FLSA requires employers to keep records on wages, hours, and other items, as specified in Department of Labor recordkeeping regulations. Most of the information is of the kind generally maintained by employers in ordinary business practice and in compliance with other laws and regulations. The records do not have to be kept in any particular form and time clocks need not be used. With respect to an employee subject to the minimum wage provisions or both the minimum wage and overtime pay provisions, the following records must be kept:

• personal information, including employee's name, home address, occupation, sex, and birth date if under 19 years of age;
• hour and day when workweek begins;
• total hours worked each workday and each workweek;
• total daily or weekly straight-time earnings;
• regular hourly pay rate for any week when overtime is worked;
• total overtime pay for the workweek;
• deductions from or additions to wages;
• total wages paid each pay period; and
• date of payment and pay period covered.