40.1-80.1 - Employment of children. - Virginia Statutes

§ 40.1-80.1. Employment of children.

A. Except as provided in §§ 40.1-79.01, 40.1-88, 40.1-102, and 40.1-109, nochild under sixteen years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered towork in, about or in connection with any gainful occupation more than thenumber of hours per week or more than the number of hours per day or duringthe hours of the day that the Commissioner shall determine by regulations tobe detrimental to the lives, health, safety or welfare of children. Theseregulations shall incorporate the standards contained in regulationspromulgated by the United States Secretary of Labor pursuant to the FairLabor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq.) concerning the number of hoursper week, hours per day, and the hours of the day that children under the ageof sixteen may work in, about, or in connection with, any gainful occupation.

B. No child shall be employed or permitted to work for more than five hourscontinuously without an interval of at least thirty minutes for a lunchperiod, and no period of less than thirty minutes shall be deemed tointerrupt a continuous period of work.

(1991, c. 511.)