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INDIANAPOLIS - Gov. Frank O'Bannon reminds employers that starting July 1, teen-agers working six or more hours a day are entitled to a 30-minute break.
"Most teens actually have two jobs. They attend school by day and then work by night," said O'Bannon. "That's demanding. Working teens deserve a break."
The new law requires teens to receive a break between their third and fifth hours of work, when they are scheduled to work six or more hours.
As the law now stands, 16- and 17-year-olds may work up to eight hours a day on school days and up to nine hours on non-school days without a break. Fourteeen- and 15-year-olds may work up to nine hours on non-school days without a break. Both state and federal laws limit 14- and 15-year-olds from working more than three hours on a school day.
Exempted from the law are teens working in camps and other facilities providing recreational, health, education or sectarian-related activities, or operated by a nonprofit entity.
The law also exempts farm laborers, domestic service workers, golf caddies, newspaper carriers, high school graduates, teens that have completed an approved vocational or special education program or teens that have withdrawn from school.
