Indiana Amends Its Child Labor Laws
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Patricia Tsipras
January 22, 2025
Effective January 1, 2025, Indiana amended its child labor laws to:
- Reduce the age for certain restrictions from 18 to 16 years of age
- Remove restrictions providing that minors between 14 and 16 years of age may work only until 7 p.m. on a day that precedes a school day from June 1 through Labor Day
- Allow 18-year-olds (previously the law applied to workers 19 years of age and older) to ring up sales of alcoholic beverages and to serve alcoholic beverages in a restaurant or hotel in the course of employment as a waiter, waitress, or server (but not as a bartender) and under the supervision of someone who is at least 21 years of age and has completed an alcohol server training program
- Note the law’s inapplicability to (1) minors employed as actors or performers in motion pictures or theatrical, radio, or television productions; (2) minors employed as newspaper carriers; and (3) minors employed as homeworkers engaged in the making of evergreen wreaths
- Prohibit the assessment of civil penalties for child labor violations of ten minutes or less
See Indiana House Bill 1093 and Senate Bill 146.
Indiana Employers: Be mindful and compliant of these changes if you employ minors.
The author of this article, Patricia Tsipras, is a member of the Bar of Pennsylvania. This article is designed to provide one perspective regarding recent legal developments, and is not intended to serve as legal advice in Pennsylvania, Indiana, or any other jurisdiction, nor does it establish an attorney-client relationship with any reader of the article where one does not exist. Always consult an attorney with specific legal issues.
