[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR570.34]

[Page 261-262]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 570_CHILD LABOR REGULATIONS, ORDERS AND STATEMENTS OF INTERPRETATION
--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart C_Employment of Minors Between 14 and 16 Years of Age (Child 
                              Labor Reg. 3)
 
Sec. 570.34  Occupations minors 14 and 15 years of age are permitted 
to perform in retail, food service, and gasoline service establishments.

    (a) This subpart shall apply to the following permitted occupations 
for minors between the ages of 14 and 16 employed by retail, food 
service, and gasoline service establishments.
    (1) Office and clerical work, including the operation of office 
machines;
    (2) Cashiering, selling, modeling, art work, work in advertising 
departments, window trimming, and comparative shopping;
    (3) Price marking and tagging by hand or by machine, assembling 
orders, packing and shelving;
    (4) Bagging and carrying out customers' orders;
    (5) Errand and delivery work by foot, bicycle, and public 
transportation;
    (6) Clean up work, including the use of vacuum cleaners and floor 
waxers, and maintenance of grounds, but not

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including the use of power-driven mowers, or cutters;
    (7) Kitchen work and other work involved in preparing and serving 
food and beverages, including operating machines and devices used in 
performing such work. Examples of permitted machines and devices 
include, but are not limited to, dishwashers, toasters, dumbwaiters, 
popcorn poppers, milk shake blenders, coffee grinders, automatic coffee 
machines, devices used to maintain the temperature of prepared foods 
(such as warmers, steam tables, and heat lamps), and microwave ovens 
that are used only to warm prepared food and do not have the capacity to 
warm above 140 [deg]F. Minors are permitted to clean kitchen equipment 
(not otherwise prohibited), remove oil or grease filters, pour oil or 
grease through filters, and move receptacles containing hot grease or 
hot oil, but only when the equipment, surfaces, containers and liquids 
do not exceed a temperature of 100 [deg]F;
    (8) Work in connection with cars and trucks if confined to the 
following: Dispensing gasoline and oil; courtesy service; car cleaning, 
washing and pol ishing; and other occupations permitted by this section, 
but not including work involving the use of pits, racks, or lifting 
apparatus, or involving the inflation of any tire mounted on a rim 
equipped with a removable retaining ring.
    (9) Cleaning vegetables and fruits, and wrapping, sealing, labeling, 
weighing, pricing and stocking goods when performed in areas physically 
separate from those where the work described in paragraph (b)(7) of this 
section is performed;
    (b) Paragraph (a) of this section shall not be construed to permit 
the application of this subpart to any of the following occupations in 
retail, food service, and gasoline service establishments:
    (1) All occupations listed in Sec. 570.33 except occupations 
involving processing, operation of machines and work in rooms where 
processing and manufacturing take place which are permitted by paragraph 
(a) of this section;
    (2) Work performed in or about boiler or engine rooms;
    (3) Work in connection with maintenance or repair of the 
establishment, machines or equipment;
    (4) Outside window washing that involves working from window sills, 
and all work requiring the use of ladders, scaffolds, or their 
substitutes;
    (5) Baking and cooking are prohibited except:
    (i) Cooking is permitted with electric or gas grilles which does not 
involve cooking over an open flame (Note: this provision does not 
authorize cooking with equipment such as rotisseries, broilers, 
pressurized equipment including fryolators, and cooking devices that 
operate at extremely high temperatures such as ``Neico broilers''); and
    (ii) Cooking is permitted with deep fryers that are equipped with 
and utilize a device which automatically lowers the baskets into the hot 
oil or grease and automatically raises the baskets from the hot oil or 
grease;
    (6) Occupations which involve operating, setting up, adjusting, 
cleaning, oiling, or repairing power-driven food slicers and grinders, 
food choppers, and cutters, and bakery-type mixers;
    (7) Work in freezers and meat coolers and all work in the 
preparation of meats for sale except as described in paragraph (a)(9) of 
this section;
    (8) Loading and unloading goods to and from trucks, railroad cars, 
or conveyors;
    (9) All occupations in warehouses except office and clerical work.

[27 FR 4165, May 2, 1962. Redesignated at 28 FR 1634, Feb. 21, 1963. 
Redesignated and amended at 36 FR 25156, Dec. 29, 1971; 69 FR 75402, 
Dec. 16, 2004]