# 29 CFR § 570.120: Eighteen-year minimum

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.120

## Section

- **Citation:** 29 CFR § 570.120
- **Heading:** Eighteen-year minimum
- **Jurisdiction:** Federal
- **Kind:** Regulations
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** September 22, 2026
- **Source:** Publisher's official text
- **Location:** Title 29—Labor > Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Labor > CHAPTER V—WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR > SUBCHAPTER A—REGULATIONS > PART 570—CHILD LABOR REGULATIONS, ORDERS AND STATEMENTS OF INTERPRETATION > Subpart G—General Statements of Interpretation of the Child Labor Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as Amended > Oppressive Child Labor

## Text

To protect young workers from hazardous employment, the FLSA provides for a minimum age of 18 years in occupations found and declared by the Secretary to be particularly hazardous or detrimental to the health or well-being for minors 16 and 17 years of age. Hazardous occupations orders are the means through which occupations are declared to be particularly hazardous for minors. Since 1995, the promulgation and amendment of the hazardous occupations orders have been effectuated under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. 551 et seq. The effect of these orders is to raise the minimum age for employment to 18 years in the occupations covered. Seventeen orders, published in subpart E of this part, have thus far been issued under the FLSA and are now in effect.
[75 FR 28458, May 20, 2010]

## Nearby sections

- [29 CFR § 570.101 § 570.101 Introductory statement.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.101.md)
- [29 CFR § 570.102 § 570.102 General scope of statutory provisions.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.102.md)
- [29 CFR § 570.103 § 570.103 Comparison with wage and hour provisions.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.103.md)
- [29 CFR § 570.104 § 570.104 General.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.104.md)
- [29 CFR § 570.105 § 570.105 “Producer, manufacturer, or dealer”.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.105.md)
- [29 CFR § 570.106 § 570.106 “Ship or deliver for shipment in commerce”.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.106.md)
- [29 CFR § 570.107 § 570.107 “Goods”. 10](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.107.md)
- [29 CFR § 570.108 § 570.108 “Produced”.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.108.md)
- [29 CFR § 570.109 § 570.109 “Establishment situated in the United States”.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.109.md)
- [29 CFR § 570.110 § 570.110 “In or about”.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.110.md)
- [29 CFR § 570.111 § 570.111 Removal “within 30 days”.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.111.md)
- [29 CFR § 570.112 § 570.112 General.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.112.md)
- [29 CFR § 570.113 § 570.113 Employment “in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce”.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.113.md)
- [29 CFR § 570.114 § 570.114 General.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-570.114.md)

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