Iowa Code § 92.1
Definition
For purposes of this chapter, “director” means the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing.
Iowa Code Chapter 92 — Child Labor
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Provisions
Iowa Code § 92.3
Under fourteen work activities not permitted
No person under fourteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work with or without compensation in any work activity.
Iowa Code § 92.4
Under sixteen permitted work activities
No person under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work with or without compensation in any work activity during regular school hours, except the following work activities: 1. Those persons legally out of school, if such status is verified by the submission of written proof to the director. 2. Those…
Iowa Code § 92.5
Fourteen permitted work activities
Persons fourteen years of age may be employed or permitted to work in the following work activities: 1. Retail, food service, and gasoline service establishments. 2. Office and clerical work, including operation of office machines. 3. Cashiering, selling, modeling, art work, work in advertising departments, window trim…
Iowa Code § 92.6
Fourteen and fifteen work activities not permitted
1. Persons fourteen and fifteen years of age shall not be employed in: a. Any manufacturing work activity. b. Any mining work activity. c. Processing work activities, except in a retail, food service, or gasoline service establishment in those specific work activities expressly permitted under the provisions of section…
Iowa Code § 92.6A
Fifteen permitted work activities
1. Persons fifteen years of age may be employed or permitted to work in any of the work activities provided in section 92.5 in addition to the following work activities: a. Loading and unloading non-power-driven equipment weighing up to thirty pounds into motor vehicles. b. Loading and unloading groceries and other ret…
Iowa Code § 92.7
Under sixteen hours permitted
A person under sixteen years of age shall not be employed with or without compensation, except as provided in sections 92.5 and 92.6A, before the hour of 7:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m., except during the period from June 1 through Labor Day when the hours may be extended to 11:00 p.m. If such person is employed for a per…
Iowa Code § 92.7A
Sixteen and seventeen hours permitted
A person who is sixteen or seventeen years of age may work the same hours as a person who is eighteen years of age.
Iowa Code § 92.8
Under eighteen prohibited work activities
No person under eighteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work with or without compensation at any of the following work activities or business establishments: 1. Work activities in or about plants or establishments manufacturing or storing explosives or articles containing explosive components, except fo…
Iowa Code § 92.8A
Approved career and technical education, work-based learning, internships, registered apprenticeship programs, and student learners
1. The director of the department of workforce development or department of education may grant an exception from any provision of section 92.7 or 92.8 for minors sixteen to seventeen years of age participating in work-based learning or a school or employer-administered, work-related program approved by the department…
Iowa Code § 92.17
Exceptions
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit: 1. A child from working in or around any home before or after school hours or during vacation periods, provided such work is not related to or part of the business, trade, or profession of the employer. 2. A child from working in any work activity or business oper…
Iowa Code § 92.19
Additional violations
1. No parent, guardian, or other person, having under the parent’s, guardian’s, or other person’s control any person under eighteen years of age, shall negligently permit said person to work or be employed in violation of the provisions of this chapter. 2. No person, firm, or corporation, or any agent thereof shall neg…
Iowa Code § 92.20
Penalty
1. Any person who furnishes or sells to any minor child any article of any description which the person knows or should have known the minor intends to sell in violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a serious misdemeanor. 2. A person determined to be a sexually violent predator pursuant to secti…
Iowa Code § 92.21
Rules and orders of director
1. The director may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to more specifically define the work activities and equipment permitted or prohibited in this chapter and to issue general and special orders prohibiting or allowing the employment of persons under eighteen years of age in any place of employment defined in this c…
Iowa Code § 92.22
Director to enforce civil penalty judicial review
1. The director shall enforce this chapter. An employer who violates this chapter or the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter is subject to a civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars for each violation. The director may waive or reduce a civil penalty based on evidence the director may obtain. The director…
Iowa Code § 92.23
Group insurance
Anyone under the age of eighteen and subject to this chapter employed in the work activities of selling or delivering the product or service of another and who is designated in such capacity as an independent contractor shall be provided participation, if the person under the age of eighteen desires it at group rate co…
Iowa Code § 92.24
Employer liability in work-based learning
1. For purposes of this section, unless the context otherwise requires: a. “Business” means any city, county, or township, including but not limited to a fire department or law enforcement office or department, public university, municipal university, community college, technical college or not-for-profit private posts…