Workers 14-15 face strict hour caps on school days, weeks, and shift timing.
The Illinois Child Labor Law (820 ILCS 205) limits 14- and 15-year-old workers to 3 hours on school days, 18 hours per school week, 8 hours per non-school day, and 40 hours per non-school week. Shifts cannot start before 7 a.m. or end after 7 p.m. (9 p.m. June 1 through Labor Day). Workers under 16 must also have an employment certificate (work permit) issued by the school. Workers 16-17 face fewer restrictions but cannot work in hazardous occupations.
Minor Hour Caps
Enforces 14-15 year-old hour limits per school/non-school day, weekly caps, and shift timing windows. Verifies work permit on file before scheduling.
What those rules do as 14-15 year-olds are scheduled.
The hero card configuration: Block on illegal time, Critical on missing permit, Avoid on cap approach.
When a manager attempts to schedule a 14-15 year-old for hours outside the legal window (before 7am, after 7pm Sept-May, after 9pm June-Aug), the publish is blocked.
When a worker under 16 doesn't have an employment certificate on file, scheduling is blocked entirely. The permit is a prerequisite, not a nice-to-have.
When scheduled hours would push past the weekly limit (18 school week, 40 non-school week), the manager sees a yellow indicator. Save proceeds, exposure logged.
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Two age tiers, multiple caps, summer/school-year timing variance.
Illinois minor labor rules are layered by age and by school session. Compliance requires per-worker classification by age, day-type tracking, and seasonal timing logic.
14-15 year old caps (school session)
During school session (typically late August through early June): 3 hours per school day, 18 hours per school week, 8 hours per non-school day (e.g., Saturday during the school year), 40 hours per non-school week (e.g., spring break). Combined school + work hours cannot exceed 8 hours per day.
14-15 year old caps (summer)
During summer recess (June 1 through Labor Day, roughly): 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week. The shift-end time extends from 7 PM to 9 PM. Total annual hours for 14-15 workers face indirect caps through compulsory school attendance laws.
Teambridge classifies by age, tracks day-type, enforces the windows.
Minor labor compliance is the kind of detail work that's easy to miss in a manual scheduling environment. Per-worker, per-shift logic gates the scheduling at the source.
Birth date and work permit on file at hire.
Workers under 18 are tagged at hire with birth date and (for under-16) employment certificate. The tag drives all downstream minor-labor logic.
Day-type, hours, time window all checked.
Every shift created for a 14-15 year-old is validated against day-type (school day vs. non-school day), accumulated weekly hours, and the time window (7am-7pm or 7am-9pm depending on date).
Summer/school-year auto-detected.
Teambridge maintains a calendar of school session dates. June 1 through Labor Day, the time window extends. Outside that range, the 7 PM cutoff applies.
Work permits monitored for renewal.
Employment certificates have expiration dates (usually tied to school year). Teambridge tracks expiration and surfaces renewal needs before the permit lapses.
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