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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 1:29:07 GMT
Depending on your state, she cannot work more than so many hours in a shift as long as she's still in high school, even with just two months left. Even if she's 18.
My kids don't work right now (15 & 16). I've suggested an ice cream shop to my oldest but he's not feeling it. He may not feel like he needs a job until he gets his license in June.
My cousin's son works part time. Because he was 16 (17 now), he only worked 10 hours a week. I believe he's up to 15 now but my cousin was talking about making him quit because his grades were slipping. I don't know if she has followed through on that as she hasn't mentioned it since.
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Post by hop2 on Mar 28, 2017 1:47:10 GMT
Mine doesn't have a job right now because he has activities that total 15-20 hours a week. Some weeks are no issue. Others suck.
I can tell you from experience that discussing it with your teen at the time that it sucks isn't productive. Lol it took me a few times to realize my mistake.
After I removed the discussion from the point & time that the teen was cranky & tired and I was stressed & annoyed to a time when we were both more sane, we worked on it more successfully.
Good luck helping your teen as they work thru this. It's hard when they are grown up yet not grown up if you know what I mean.
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Post by Gennifer on Mar 28, 2017 1:51:57 GMT
My 15yo daughter works about 25 hours a week during the school year, and close to 40 during the summer. My 14yo son just started working last month, and he's about 12 hours a week.
They are exempt from the child-labor laws in our state because it's a family-owned business.
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Post by freecharlie on Mar 28, 2017 3:37:55 GMT
DS didn't work during high school - high school and baseball were his jobs. I'm interested in the people who said they worked 30-40 hours/week when in school. In my state, that isn't legal (unless you are 18). Do your states not have laws regarding the employment of minors? under 16 has hour rules, but once you hit 16 you are good to go |
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Post by freecharlie on Mar 28, 2017 3:41:03 GMT
What are the labor laws where you are?? Some of the responses have me concerned about employers not following the child labor laws. I know there's some limits when school is in session. seems to vary by state. In mine, restrictions only apply to 15 and 14 year olds |
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Post by its me mg on Mar 28, 2017 3:45:38 GMT
What are the labor laws where you are?? Some of the responses have me concerned about employers not following the child labor laws. I know there's some limits when school is in session. It varies by state www.dol.gov/whd/state/nonfarm.htmWe have a limit of 8 hours a day on weekends and up to 5 hours on school days. Our shifts average about 5 hours, so a typical high school would only get approx. 15-25 hours. |
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 28, 2017 4:05:24 GMT
When my DD was doing Year 12 she was working a total of 12 hours per week - 4 hours on Friday night and 8 hours on Saturday. She works in my SIL's optometry store and it is usually really quiet on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons, so she spent a lot of time studying when there were no customers in the store. During her first year of University she had 2 jobs and towards the end of the year she was working 40 hours a week on top of uni! (Mind you, she only had to go to uni one day a week that first year.  ) I told her at the time that she needed to reduce her working hours because she was exhausted. She knew that in 2nd year uni she was going to have to go for a lot more hours, and she wanted to make money while she could. |
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Post by my3freaks on Mar 28, 2017 4:18:54 GMT
My 17 year old daughter is a senior and works 30-40 hours most week. She is a shift supervisor at a fast food restaurant that I think is only in Colorado. Most weeks, she usually works 9 hour shifts at least 2 days Friday, Sat or Sunday, sometimes all 3 of them. She also works a couple days during the week, but the hours vary then. They try to not schedule her to close to much during the week, she's there until 11:30 or midnight if she does. She goes to school from 7:35 to 12:25. She is only taking 1 AP class, and her other 4 classes are pretty easy electives, and her only "extra curricular" is orchestra (which is one of her classes), she has 1 lesson a week that b/c of scheduling it ended up being after her school day ends so she just stays late that day. She has an off period during the school day, she doesn't bring home homework very often. Her grades haven't changed because of working. She knew that was the deal when she wanted to find a job. Her Dad takes her to school in the morning, and he does have to get on her a lot of morning to hurry up because she turns her alarm off, but she does that whether she works or not, and did it before this year. She's like me, NOT a morning person. She can keep her attitude to herself though when she wants to be surly. Thankfully I don't see them in the morning, I don't need to get that early.  My son didn't work while he was in high school. He took more AP classes and dual enrollments and it just never came up. He got one after he graduated. |
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Post by tanya2 on Mar 28, 2017 4:37:02 GMT
my dd is in grade 12, but this semester only has 2 classes in the mornings plus an online class that she can do whenever. So right now she's working in a grocery store about 15-20 hours per week. It's not really enough though because it's just barely enough money to cover her car & expenses, plus she's saving up because she's wanting to take a year off from school & move to Banff in the fall to work for a year before college. So currently she's job hunting for something full time
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) I told her at the time that she needed to reduce her working hours because she was exhausted. She knew that in 2nd year uni she was going to have to go for a lot more hours, and she wanted to make money while she could.
