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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6414
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 4899
Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
Introduced by:
(LAB)
AN ACT CONCERNING MINORS WHO HAVE REACHED THE AGE OF
FIFTEEN WORKING IN RETAIL STORES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 31-23 of the 1
general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 2
thereof (Effective October 1, 2025): 3
(b) (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this 4
section, a minor who has reached the age of fourteen may be employed 5
or permitted to work as a caddie or in a pro shop at any municipal or 6
private golf course, and a minor who has reached the age of fifteen may 7
be employed or permitted to work as a staff member at a youth camp, 8
as defined in section 19a-420, as a lifeguard or in any mercantile 9
establishment as a bagger, cashier or stock clerk, provided such 10
employment is (A) limited to periods of school vacation during which 11
school is not in session for five consecutive days or more except that 12
such minor employed in a [retail food store] mercantile establishment 13
may work on any Saturday during the year; (B) for not more than forty 14
hours in any week; (C) for not more than eight hours in any day; and 15
(D) between the hours of seven o'clock in the morning and seven o'clock 16
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in the evening, except that from July first to the first Monday in 17
September in any year, any such minor may be employed until nine 18
o'clock in the evening. Any minor who has reached the age of fifteen 19
and is employed or works as a staff member at a youth camp or as a 20
lifeguard shall be supervised by a person of at least eighteen years of 21
age. 22
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2025 31-23(b)(1)
Statement of Purpose:
To allow fifteen-year-olds to work in retail stores under the same
conditions as fifteen-year-olds employed in grocery stores.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. BERGER-GIRVALO, 111th Dist.; REP. ANDERSON, 62nd
Dist.
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