- Minors 14- to 17-years-old may work in businesses where alcoholic beverages are sold as long as the sale of food or other goods is at least 50 percent of gross sales. Minors less than 16 years of age may not work where alcohol is consumed regardless of sales percentage.
- Minors under the age of 18 cannot sell, serve, or furnish alcoholic beverages.
- For information on Liquor Control Commission regulations concerning selling and serving alcoholic beverages visit www.michigan.gov/lcc or call 1-866-893-2121.
Minors covered by the act may not work in any occupation determined by act or rule to be hazardous. Examples of hazardous work include, but are not limited to:
- Contact with hazardous substances, chemicals, explosives or radioactive substances.
- Driving and work as an outside helper (pizza delivery, etc.).
- Jobs in the mining, logging and sawmill industry.
- Jobs using woodworking machinery.
- Brazing, welding, soldering or heat treating, for those less than 16 years of age.
- Work on construction sites, roofing operations, excavation or demolition sites, bridges, streets, or highways.
- Slaughtering, butchering, meat cutting, meat packing, rendering, or tanning.
- Occupations involving power driven equipment, tools, saws, or machinery. (Bakery machines, paper product machines, meat slicers, metal-forming, punching and shearing machines).
- Occupations involving the operation of, assisting in the operation of, and riding on hoisting apparatus including forklifts. Minors 16 to 17 years old may work under elevated equipment.
Minors covered by the act may not work in any occupation determined by administrative review to be hazardous under the authority of Section 3. Examples of hazardous work include, but are not limited to:
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