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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 07/16/03
Cait from NJ said:
I really think it is unfair for teens looking for jobs today... If you think about it we may actually work harder than adults because we are more energetic and have more youth. Why is it that a fourteen year old cannot find a job, yet an eighteen year old calls up one place and boom they have a job. Does age really matter? I understand that some teens may be immature and what not, but there are plenty other teens who are mature and responsible. I think employers need to change their ways! Im looking for a job in South Jersey please contact me im 14! Thank You. Cait
On 07/14/03
Ana from TX said:
HEY KAYLA I AGREE WITH YOU, AND IF* JESSICA WAS MORE* MATURE* THEN* HER USUAL AGE; SHE WOULNDT HAVE COMPLAINED TO BEGIN WITH. I MEAN IF YOU KNOW U ACT MORE MATURE JESS, YOU WOULD ALSO KNOW THAT IF YOU WAIT UNTIL A FEW YEARS* WHEN YOU'RE *READY* TO APPLY FOR A JOB...YOU WILL BE MATURE EVEN THEN SO YOUR BOSS/EMPLOYER WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR HARD WORK OR, YOU KNOW WAT IM GETTING AT, JUST WAIT GIRLIE...LATER *ONE LUV*
On 07/14/03
??? from AZ said:
Are there really jobs that are for 14 y/o ,but I don't mean lawn mowing and babysitting?
On 07/09/03
Matthew from OH said:
I am only fourteen years old and I am in the 8th grade. I have a job working at McDonalds, and it pays $5.15 an hour. It may not seem like much but for a fourteen year old it is. So there are some places that hire a fourteen year old.
On 07/03/03
Shauna from AL said:
I really need a job here my mom is a single working mom getting paid pretty much nothing and she has to support me and my grandparents who are ill.My grandparent have to have hundreds of dolars of medication they get some checks too but they're not much.I just wish someone would give me a chance and let me work somewhere so we could actually have some money for medicine.
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