Child labor authority

The Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA, is the Federal wage-hour law that defines certain limitations for child labor and other labor standards.

The FLSA establishes an 18-year minimum age for those nonagricultural occupations that the Secretary of Labor finds and declares to be particularly hazardous for 16 and 17-year-old minors, or detrimental to their health or well-being. In addition, Child Labor regulations also ban 14- and 15-year-olds from performing any work proscribed as hazardous.