What jobs are you not allowed to perform?
Prohibited Hazardous Occupations
FOR ALL MINORS
Under the Age of 18
Prohibited Hazardous Occupations
FOR MINORS 14-15
Manufacturing and storing explosives
Coal mining
Logging and sawmilling
Power-driven woodworking machines
Exposure to radioactive substances
Power-driven hoisting apparatus
Power-driven metal-forming, punching, and
shearing machines
Apprenticeable Occupations
Slaughtering, or meat packing, processing, or rendering. This includes the operation of a
power-driven meat slicer.
Power-driven bakery machines
Power-driven paper-product machines
Manufacturing brick, tile, and kindred products
Power-driven circular saws, band saws, and
guillotine shears
Wrecking demolition, and shipbreaking
operations
Roofing operations
Excavation operations
Any Manufacturing or Mining job
Processing occupations such as filleting of fish, dressing poultry, cracking nuts or laundering
Occupations with duties in workplaces where goods are Manufactured, Mined or Processed
Public Messenger Service
Operating or Tending of Hoisting Apparatus or of any Power-Driven Machinery (other than office machines and machines in retail, food service and establishments)
Any Occupations found and declared to be hazardous by official designation
Occupations in connection with:
a) Transportation of persons or property by rail, highway, air, on water, pipeline or other means
b) Warehousing & Storage
c) Communications & Public Utilities
d) Construction (including repair)
EXCEPT office and sales work in connection with these four categories as long as such office and sales work is not performed at the site of the prohibited jobs
Dispensing gasoline or other fuel
Docks, private or public
Parking Lot Attendants
Car Washes either hand or machine
Occupations in Billiard or Poolrooms
Any work in a Tunnel
Any work in a Boiler or Engine room
Outside Window Washing
All work using Ladders or Scaffolds
Work in Freezers or Meat Coolers
If you are under 18 and work in Rhode Island, you MAY need a Certificate of Age form.
If you are under 16, you MUST have a Special Limited Permit to Work form.
Rhode Island employers who hire minors 14-15 MUST fill out the Intention to Employ A Minor form. For minors 16-17, employers MAY need to fill out this same form:
Intention to Employ a Minor Form (pdf)
If you are an employer in Rhode Island and you hire a minor, it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to keep a Special Limited Permit to Work form for all your employees under 16 years of age, and a Certificate of Age form for minors under 18, if one is obtained.
Once the minor's Certificate of Age or Special Limited Permit to Work form is completed, it is important for the employer to keep a copy at the place of business. This serves as the proof of age of minor employees.
If you are 16-17 and want to work in Rhode Island, you MAY need the following form:
Certificate of Age Form (pdf)
If you are under 14-15 and want to work in Rhode Island, you MUST have the following form, as it is mandatory:
Special Limited Permit to Work (pdf)
Once you receive a copy of your Intent to Employ a Minor form, take it, along with a copy of your Birth Cerificate, Baptismal Certificate, Pasport, School Records or Drivers License to the School Department in the city/town where you live, and they will issue you either a Special Limited Permit to Work, or a Certificate of Age form.
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Rhode Island Child Labor Laws Poster and Pamphet (pdf files)
Ready to Work? Understanding Rhode Island's Child Labor Laws Brochure (pdf)
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New & Revised Child Labor Materials from US Department of Labor
RI State Summer Job Opportunities
Youth RULES - a US Department of Labor web resource
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