MT - Montana Human Resource Labor Laws

Below is a list of employment laws we monitor and provide for Montana.

Example law for this state:

Child Labor Law

The Montana Child Labor Laws apply to all children, migrant as well as resident children. These laws parallel, but do not supersede the federal child labor laws. The federal law is similar to the Montana law but is more restrictive in certain areas. Minor, an individual under 18 years of age, except for an individual who: (a) Has received a high school diploma or has received a passing score on the general education development examinations; or (b) Is 16 years of age or older and is enrolled in a registered state or federal apprenticeship program. The following are considered hazardous occupations for minors under 18 years of age: 1. Manufacturing and storing explosives 2. Riding outside a motor vehicle to assist in transporting or delivering goods 3. Coal mining 4. Logging and saw milling 5. Power-driven woodworking machines 6. Exposure to radioactive substances 7. Power-driven hoisting apparatus, such as non-automatic elevators, fork lifts, and cranes 8. Power-driven metal-forming, punching, and shearing machines 9. Mining, other than coal mining 10. Slaughtering, meat-packing, processing, or rendering 11. Power-driven bakery machines 12. Power-driven paper-products machines 13. Manufacturing of brick, tile, and similar products 14. Power-driven circular saws, band saws, and guillotine shears 15. Wrecking, demolition, and shipbreaking operations 16. Roofing operations 17. Excavation operations Minors age 14 and 15 cannot operate power driven equipment such as lawn mowers and power driven string trimmers. They can perform other domestic garden and lawn care chores using hand operated devices such as shovels, rakes, hoes, etc. Minors 16 and 17 years of age can use power mowers and string trimmers. They cannot use chain saws and string trimmers equipped with brush and wood cutting blades. All Minors, regardless of age, may be employed: 1. By their parents or guardians (except in manufacturing, mining and hazardous occupations) 2. In agriculture or farming with written consent of their parents or guardians or on a farm or in a home owned by their parents or guardians or on a farm where the parent or guardian is also employed 3. In the delivery or collection of newspapers, periodicals or circulars 4. In casual, community, non-revenue raising, uncompensated activity, (such as religious and charitable volunteer work) 5. As an actor, model or performer 6. As a legislative aide 7. In casual domestic work at a person's home 8. As an official or referee for a nonprofit athletic organization. A minor who is under the age of 14 may not officiate at adult events or activities. Except as provided above, a minor who is under 14 years of age may not be employed in or in connection with an occupation. Minors who are 14 and 15 years old may not work in the following: NONAGRICULTURAL JOBS Manufacturing, mining, most processing work, and all hazardous occupations; operating or tending most power-driven machinery; public messenger service; and work connected with warehousing, storage, transportation, communications, public utilities, and construction (except office and sales jobs when not performed on transportation vehicles or on construction sites). AGRICULTURAL JOBS Felling, bucking, skidding, loading or unloading timber with a butt diameter of more than nine inches; repairing a building from a ladder or scaffold at a height of more than twenty feet; working inside a fruit, forage or grain storage structure designed to retain an oxygen deficient or toxic atmosphere; working inside a silo within two weeks after silage has been added or when a top loading device is in operating position; handling or using a blasting agent including but not limited to dynamic, black powder, sensitized ammonium nitrate, blasting caps or primer cord; or transferring or applying anhydrous ammonia. Exemptions from some of the hazardous occupations apply for 14 and 15 year old student learners enrolled in vocational agriculture programs when certain requirements are met. Minors aged 14 and 15 who hold certificates of completion of training under a 4-H or vocational agriculture program may work outside school hours on equipment for which they have been trained. Unless working as an apprentice or student-learner under 41-2-110 MCA, a minor 16 or 17 years of age may not be employed in or in connection with hazardous occupations. Unless otherwise exempt, a minor who is 14 or 15 years of age may not be employed: 1. During school hours, except as provided for in Work Experience and Career Exploration Programs approved by the department or the office of public instruction 2. Before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m., except that the minor may be employed until 9 p.m. during the periods outside the school year (June 1 through Labor Day, depending on local standards) 3. More than 3 hours on a school day 4. More than 18 hours in a school week 5. More than 8 hours on a non-school day 6. More than 40 hours in non-school week

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