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Summer Jobs Can Be Dangerous |
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May 5, 2001
Here are just a few things to look out for: Jobs Involving DrivingSure your kid would like to buzz around town delivering pizzas, but aside from such risks as traffic accidents and hold-ups, there's a strong likelihood your insurance rates will skyrocket if you child uses his or her car for business use. Also, under current federal law, 16-year-olds are prohibited from jobs that involve regular driving. Seventeen-year-olds may engage in "occasional and incidental driving" provided the automobile or truck does not exceed 6,000 pounds and driving is restricted to daylight hours. Sweatshops on the StreetEvery city is loaded with scam artists looking for ways to exploit kids. This includes signing up teens to sell candy, magazine subscriptions and other consumer goods door-to-door and on city streets. Often these promoters claim to be affiliated with a charity. In fact, nearly all of these schemes are rip-offs -- the money does not go to charity, the kids are mistreated and, in many cases, endangered. Crew leaders often have criminal records. Traveling SweatshopsEven worse are the organization that truck teens over great distances to sell magazines and other items door-to-door. Many teens have been killed, injured, molested and scammed by these organizations. In one especially notorious incident, a 1999 van crash near Janesville, Wis., killed seven people and left five others injured. The van was being operated by Youth Employment Services Inc. of DeWitt, Iowa, whose owner and manager was charged with 13 felonies in connection with the accident. Prohibited OccupationsFederal law prohibits anyone under 18 from doing any of the following:
Those who are 14 and 15 are barred from jobs that require them to:
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