Who must post the Indiana Work Restrictions for Youth Employees Peel ‘N Post?
- Effective January 1, 2025, every Indiana employer that employs a minor who is at least 14 years-of-age but less than 16 years-of-age is required to display and maintain the Indiana Department of Labor’s Work Restrictions for Youth Employees posting describing the work hours limitations that apply to minor employees. (IC 22-2-18.1-22)
- The posting must be posted in a conspicuous place or in places where notices to employees are customarily posted.
What’s new?
Significant changes were made to Indiana’s Child Labor Law by 2024 House Bill 1093 relaxing many of the restrictions on the hours and jobs that youth employees may work. The changes are effective January 1 2025.
Under the law, only employers that employ 14- and 15-year-olds are required to post the Work Restrictions for Youth Employees posting in the workplace. Employers with teen workers who are 16 years old or older are no longer required to post the Work Restrictions for Youth Employees posting.
Other changes made by the legislation include:
- Exempting from work hour restrictions minors age 14 through 15 working in specified jobs.
- Excluding from work hour restrictions certain minors age 14 through 15 who are not required to attend school for various reasons.
- Allowing minors age 14 through 15 to work later hours from June 1 through Labor Day.
- Eliminating work hour restrictions for minors age 16 through 17, and allowing them to work in hazardous jobs.
- Removing the requirement that an adult employee be present when a 16- or 17-year-old works in a public establishment after 10:00 p.m.