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Walk It Through: The Summer Job

A young teenager at the pool snack bar, late shifts in July, a meat slicer, and the first paycheck.

A teenager, fourteen and not yet sixteen, gets a summer job at a city pool's snack bar.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

A summer job for a worker under sixteen. Work permits from the school, farm work, and hours while school is in session are not worked through here.

A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.