child-labor laws

i looked where i thought i would look: state website, school websites
but i haven't found anything.

we live in NJ and my son just turned 14.
can he start working a summer job?

where i grew up, you had to be 16 and have a work permit from school.

does anyone know the answer or where i can get the answer? i feel like i'm chasing my tail.

i'd like to start teaching him the work that goes into earning a buck.

tia.

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34:2-21.2. Minors under 16 not to be employed; exceptions; nonresidents

No minor under 16 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in, about, or in connection with any gainful occupation at any time; provided, that minors between 14 and 16 years of age may be employed, permitted or suffered to work outside school hours and during school vacations but not in or for a factory or in any occupation otherwise prohibited by law or by order or regulation made in pursuance of law; and provided, further, that minors under 16 years of age may engage in professional employment in theatrical productions upon the obtaining of a permit therefor and may engage outside school hours and during school vacations in agricultural pursuits or in street trades and as newspaperboys as defined in this act, in accordance with the provisions of section 15 of this act. Minors may also engage in employment in domestic service performed outside of school hours or during school vacations with the permission of the minor's parents or legal guardian, in a residence other than the minor's own home. Nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to the work of a minor engaged in domestic service or agricultural pursuits performed outside of school hours or during school vacations in connection with the minor's own home and directly for his parents or legal guardian.

Except as to the employment of a minor for whom a theatrical employment permit has been issued, no minor under 16 years of age not a resident of this State shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any occupation or service whatsoever at any time during which the law of the state of his residence required his attendance at school, or at any time during the hours when the public schools in the district in which employment in such occupation or services may be available are in session.

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thank you!

now, why couldn't i see that??

oh well.

again, thanks

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my brother worked in a restaurant from when he was 14 years old-and i think it did him very good

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I started working at 14- babysitting at the tennis club we belonged too

there is a huge difference between me and my brother- and it stems from him never having a summer job and me riding my bike to one each year

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I worked at 14 in a greenhouse over the summer, then a bagel store.

good times...

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