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Question: Can employers refuse to hire 14-year-olds if they hire 15-year-olds in AZ?

Answer: Arizona law does not forbid an employer from refusing to hire 14-year-olds, while hiring 15-year-olds.

However, Arizona statues do have various restrictions regarding the employment of children under the age of 16. Arizona Law (ARS §23-232) says that children under 16 are prohibited from working in, about, or in connection with:

-manufacturing
-processing
-laundering or dry cleaning in a commercial laundry
-warehousing
-construction
-boiler, furnace, or engine rooms
-occupations involving work from a ladder, scaffold, windowsill, or similar structures, or places more than five feet in height
-certain activities in retail food or gasoline service establishments.

Another Arizona Law (ARS §23-231) has more restrictions for employment of children under 18 years old.

In addition, there are limitations placed on the hours that may be worked by children under the age of 16. Minors under the age of 16 may not work more than 3 hours per day and 18 hours per week when enrolled in school. When not enrolled in school or when school is not in session, minors under the age of 16 may not work more than 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week.

Read more information about U.S. child labor laws from the U.S. Department of Labor


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On 12/10/03
Ciara from AZ said:
Ithink 14 yaer olds should be able to get a job because they need to live to. What the family needs money for something and the parents can't work. I'm 14 and went everywhere lokking for a job, they turned me down because I wasn't old enough. And I think I was smarter then most of their employees.
On 11/27/03
Lisa from Othe said:
i am 14 and i work in my aunties shop (i'm from liverpool, uk) and i get paid the crapest wage ever.i get paid £1.20 an hour and my auntie is proper loaded. (she's my mums brothers wife). i go in in the mornin and get a 10min break, then 30min for lunch the 10 min. the breaks are realy spaced out and i just sit there 9 till 5 every sat i need a better wage is she doing wrong or am i just lucky to sacrifice not going out with my mates and doing better things for £10? how can i explain this to her? pllese help as nobody wants to get given a lousy £10 at the end of a long day that has felt like
On 11/21/03
tanya from Othe said:
i think they should do jobs for 14 year olds because if they are actually making the effort to get a job then give em a chance i am 15 i am finding it hard to get a job at 15.
On 11/21/03
terri from FL said:
wot makes me laugh is that people moan when they see kids messin about in the streets SO WHY NOT GIVE THEM SUMET TO DO dont just moan it will keep em out of trouble. ne 1 no where i can get a job speak up thanx.
On 11/19/03
Chris from AZ said:
Ya i'm with you Billy and the other guy adults need to just give us "kids" a chance so we can show them what we can do and prove that we're good enough. And also that we're not just the "slackers" they think we are. -chris-
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