Comment on Ask HN: Internships for a 13-year-old?Comments−brudgers11y[I am not a lawyer]In the United States, Federal labor law limits the employment of children. The restrictions on employing people under age 14 are rather severe and would probably preclude any sort of internship:http://www.youthrules.dol.gov/know-the-limits/under14.htmThis is probably the summer to work on side projects. Next year the rules allow a far wider range of employment opportunities:http://www.youthrules.dol.gov/know-the-limits/14-15.htmThe fuller explanation is here:http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs43.htmGood luck.−lachlanjcOP11yThanks for that! I’ll be 14 by the time the internship could start, so it sounds like one could work out in regards to the law.
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[I am not a lawyer]
In the United States, Federal labor law limits the employment of children. The restrictions on employing people under age 14 are rather severe and would probably preclude any sort of internship:
http://www.youthrules.dol.gov/know-the-limits/under14.htm
This is probably the summer to work on side projects. Next year the rules allow a far wider range of employment opportunities:
http://www.youthrules.dol.gov/know-the-limits/14-15.htm
The fuller explanation is here:
http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs43.htm
Good luck.
Thanks for that! I’ll be 14 by the time the internship could start, so it sounds like one could work out in regards to the law.