WV - West Virginia Human Resource Labor Laws

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

Example law for this state:

Child Labor Laws

A child under fourteen years of age shall only be employed or permitted to work the following jobs: 1. Agriculture and horticulture activities which have not been declared hazardous by the secretary of the United States Department of Labor; 2. Domestic services within the residence of the employer; 3. Work for parents or legal guardian in their solely owned business, except those jobs set out in section two of this article; 4. As actors or performers in motion pictures, theatrical, radio or television productions; and 5. Newspaper delivery. No child under eighteen years of age may be employed, permitted or suffered to work in, about, or in connection with any of the following occupations: Motor vehicle driver and outside helper whose work includes riding on a motor vehicle outside the cab for the purpose of assisting in transporting or delivery of goods; The manufacture, storage, handling or transportation of explosives or highly flammable substances; Ore reduction works, smelters, hot rolling mills, furnaces, foundries, forging shops, or in any other place in which the heating, melting or heat treatment of metals is carried on; Logging and saw milling occupations; Power-driven woodworking machine occupations; Occupations involving exposure to radioactive substances and ionizing radiations; Power-driven hoisting apparatus occupations; Power-driven metal-forming, punching, and shearing machine occupations; Mining, including coal mining; Occupations involving slaughtering, meat-packing, or processing or rendering; Power-driven bakery machines; Power-driven paper-products machine occupations; Occupations involved in the manufacturing of brick, tile, and kindred products; Occupations involved in the operation of power-driven circular saws, band saws, and guillotine shears; Occupations involved in wrecking, demolition, and shipbreaking operations; Roofing operations above ground level; and Excavation operations. No child under eighteen years of age may be employed or permitted to work in a bar, or be permitted, employed or suffered to sell, dispense or serve alcoholic beverages in any place or establishment where the consumption of alcoholic beverages is permitted by law. No child under eighteen years of age may be employed or permitted to work in any occupation prohibited by law or determined by the commissioner to be dangerous or injurious. However, a child between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years who has completed the minimum training requirements of the West Virginia University fire service extension firefighter training section one, or its equivalent, and who has the written consent of his or her parents or guardian may be employed by or elected as a member of a volunteer fire department to perform fire-fighting functions. No child may be permitted to operate any fire-fighting vehicles, enter a burning building in the course of his or her employment or work or enter into any area determined by the fire chief or fireman in charge at the scene of a fire or other emergency to be an area of danger exposing the child to physical harm by reason of impending collapse of a building or explosion, unless the child is under the immediate supervision of a fire line officer. A child fourteen or fifteen years of age may be employed or permitted to work in any gainful occupation, when the person, firm or corporation by whom the child is employed or permitted to work, obtains and keeps on file and accessible to officers charged with the enforcement of this article, a work permit issued by the superintendent of schools of the county in which the child resides, or by some person authorized by him or her in writing. Whenever a work permit has been issued, or wherever an age certificate has been issued under the provisions of section five of this article, it shall be conclusive as to the age of the child on whose behalf the work permit or age certificate was issued. The superintendent of schools, or person authorized by him or her in writing, shall issue the work permit only upon receipt of the following documents: 1. A written statement, signed by the person for whom the child expects to work, that he or she intends legally to employ the child; 2. A brief written description of the job the child is expected to perform; 3. A birth certificate, or attested transcript thereof, issued by the registrar of vital statistics or other officer charged with the duty of recording births; 4. A certificate signed by the principal or registrar of the school attended showing that the child is attending school; and 5. The written consent of the parent or parents, guardian or custodian of the child. No child under the age of sixteen who is employed or permitted to work in accordance with the provisions of this article shall work: 1. During school hours, except as provided in work experience and career exploration programs approved by the United States Secretary of Labor; 2. Before seven o'clock antemeridian or after seven o'clock postmeridian. A child under the age of sixteen may work until nine o'clock postmeridian from the first day of June through Labor Day; 3. More than three hours per day, on days in which public schools are in session; 4. More than eighteen hours per week, in weeks in which public schools are in session; 5. More than eight hours, on days in which public schools are not in session; 6. More than forty hours per week, in weeks in which public schools are not in session; or 7. More than five hours continuously without an interval of at least thirty minutes for a lunch period.

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