103.66 Powers and duties of the department relating to employment of minors.
(1) The department may investigate, determine and fix reasonable classifications of employments, places of employment and minimum ages for hazardous employment for minors, and may issue general or special orders prohibiting the employment of minors in employments or places of employment prejudicial to the life, health, safety or welfare of minors, and may carry out the purposes of ss. 103.64 to 103.82. In fixing minimum ages for hazardous employment for minors under this subsection, the department shall do all of the following:
(a) Permit the employment of a minor 14 years of age or over as a laboratory assistant for a nonprofit, community-based organization that provides educational opportunities in medically related fields if the minor is under the direct supervision of a mentor and the laboratory at which the minor is employed complies with 10 CFR 20.1207 and 29 CFR 1910.1030.
(b) Permit the employment of a minor 15 years of age or over as a lifeguard. The department shall require that an adult employee be present on the premises whenever a 15-year-old is employed as a lifeguard and shall require any minor to have successfully completed a bona fide life saving course in order to be employed as a lifeguard.
(2) The department may investigate and fix reasonable classifications of employments and hours of employment for minors under 16 years of age and may issue general or special orders fixing for those minors maximum hours of employment per day and per week, maximum days of employment per week, hours at which employment may begin and end, and the duration of lunch and other rest periods as are necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare of those minors. For minors under 16 years of age, the department may not fix hours of employment that exceed the maximum hours per day and per week specified in s. 103.68 (2) (a) and (b), that exceed the maximum days per week specified in s. 103.68 (2) (c), or that begin earlier or end later than the hours specified in s. 103.68 (2) (d) and (e). For minors 16 years of age or over, the department may fix the duration of lunch and other rest periods, but may not limit hours of employment or issue general or special orders fixing maximum hours of employment per day or per week, maximum days of employment per week, or hours at which employment may begin and end.
(3) The investigations, classifications and orders provided for in subs. (1) and (2) shall be made as provided under s. 103.005. These orders are subject to review as provided in ch. 227.
History: 1971 c. 185 s. 6; 1971 c. 271, 307; 1995 a. 27; 2011 a. 32; 2017 a. 153.
An occupation must be listed as a prohibited employment in rules adopted by the Department of Workforce Development under this section for there to be absolute liability. Perra v. Menomonee Mutual Insurance Co., 2000 WI App 215, 239 Wis. 2d 26, 619 N.W.2d 123, 00-0184.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 103 - Employment regulations.
103.005 - Powers, duties and jurisdiction of department.
103.007 - Local regulation of hours of labor and overtime; statewide concern; uniformity.
103.01 - Hours of labor; definitions.
103.025 - Hours of labor; compensatory time.
103.04 - Labor and industry review commission.
103.05 - Hiring reporting system; state directory of new hires.
103.06 - Worker classification compliance.
103.10 - Family or medical leave.
103.11 - Bone marrow and organ donation leave.
103.12 - Local regulation of employment benefits; statewide concern; uniformity.
103.13 - Records open to employee.
103.14 - Grooming requirement; notification.
103.15 - Restrictions on use of an HIV test.
103.16 - Seats for employees; penalty.
103.165 - Employee's cash bonds to be held in trust; duty of employer; penalty.
103.18 - Threat or promise to influence vote.
103.21 - Street trades; definitions.
103.22 - General standards and powers of the department.
103.245 - Designation of a permit officer.
103.25 - Permits and identification cards.
103.26 - Refusal or revocation of permits and identification cards.
103.27 - Duties of employers of minors in street trades.
103.275 - Duties of employers in house-to-house street trades.
103.30 - Penalty on newspapers for allowing minors to loiter around premises.
103.31 - Penalty on parent or guardian.
103.32 - Recovery of arrears of wages.
103.33 - Discriminatory acts; street trades.
103.34 - Regulation of traveling sales crews.
103.35 - Information required for licensure.
103.37 - Certain requirements to obtaining employment prohibited.
103.38 - Eight-hour work day; applicability.
103.43 - Fraudulent advertising for labor.
103.45 - Time checks; penalty.
103.455 - Deductions for faulty workmanship, loss, theft or damage.
103.457 - Listing deductions from wages.
103.465 - Restrictive covenants in employment contracts.
103.503 - Substance abuse prevention on public works and public utility projects.
103.505 - Collective bargaining; definitions.
103.51 - Public policy as to collective bargaining.
103.52 - “ Yellow-dog" contracts.
103.53 - Lawful conduct in labor disputes.
103.535 - Unlawful conduct in labor controversies.
103.54 - Responsibility for unlawful acts.
103.545 - Recruitment of strikebreakers.
103.55 - Public policy as to labor litigation.
103.56 - Injunctions: conditions of issuance; restraining orders.
103.57 - Clean hands doctrine.
103.58 - Injunctions: contents.
103.59 - Injunctions: appeals.
103.61 - Punishment for contempt.
103.64 - Employment of minors; definitions.
103.65 - General standards for employment of minors.
103.66 - Powers and duties of the department relating to employment of minors.
103.67 - Minimum ages in various employments.
103.695 - Designation of a permit officer.
103.70 - Permits necessary for minors; exceptions.
103.71 - Conditions for issuance of permits.
103.72 - Refusal and revocation of permits.
103.73 - Form and requisites of permit; as evidence.
103.74 - Duties of employers of minors.
103.76 - Proof of age in court.
103.78 - Minors in public exhibitions, radio and television broadcasts, modeling.
103.805 - Fees; permits and certificates of age.
103.81 - Advertising; penalty.
103.83 - Discriminatory acts; employment of minors.
103.85 - One day of rest in seven.
103.86 - Employee welfare funds: default in payments.
103.87 - Employee not to be disciplined for testifying.
103.905 - Department's duties.
103.91 - Migrant labor contractors.
103.915 - Migrant work agreements.
103.917 - Safe transportation.
103.92 - Certification of migrant labor camps.
103.94 - Civil action by migrant workers.
103.945 - Nonwaiver of rights.
103.96 - Retaliation prohibited.
103.967 - Duties of council on migrant labor.
103.968 - Council review of rules.