Fact sheet: Explains permitted and prohibited work activities for youth ages 14 to 17 in food service. Includes rules for driving, student-learner exemptions and work hours.

Flier: Provides important information about hiring teens, including extra safety precautions, as well as legal requirements begarding minor work endorsement, hours and prohibited duties. Provides telephone, e-mail and Web contacts for more information.

Fact sheet: Provides an overview and resources to know your obligations when you have family members working for you. Relatives, including children, must be treated as employees with the same rights as any other paid worker in the state of Washington.

Fact sheet: Provides an overview and resources to know your obligations when you have family members working for you. Relatives, including children, must be treated as employees with the same rights as any other paid worker in the state of Washington.

For legal guardians and school officials to approve the hours and work activities for a minor employee to work according to terms listed by the employer. The Special Variance allows additional hours of work for 16- and 17-year-olds and is described on the form. All parties must sign to approve the hours of work for a minor regardless of the number of hours listed. This is NOT a work permit. Employers must obtain a minor work permit endorsement on their Master Business License where they employ workers under 18.

This form is for summer employment of minors, only, and is for parents or legal guardians to approve the hours and work activities for a minor employee to work according to terms listed by the employer.  All parties must sign to approve the work schedule and duties for a minor prior to permitting them to work.  This is NOT a work permit.  Employers must obtain a minor work permit endorsement on their Business License where they employ workers under 18.

This is the Worker Rights Complaint Form. Both the 12-2011 and 10-2010 versions are valid.

Pocket guide: Provides links to online information, including safety and health consultations, how to develop a safety program, reporting hazards and injuries, other safety training, and information for teen workers.

Required poster: Reviews workers' rights under Washington's wage-and-hour laws. Topics include minimum wage, overtime, meal and rest breaks, pay periods, deductions, and employment of teens under age 18. Also reviews family leave provisions under federal and state law, and leave for spouses of deploying military personnel and victims of domestic violence. Note: Employers in both agricultural and non-agricultural industries in Washington State must display this poster where workers can see it. Get poster printing tips.

Used by employers to register as employing minors who will be engaged in house-to-house sales, as required by WAC 296-125-024, with Labor and Industries.

Card: Reminds employers of special work rules for employees under age 18. Lists key points and provides a Web address for where to find more detailed information. Sent to all employers who obtain a minor work permit endorsement on the master business license.

Form from Court Granting Permission for Employment of Minors to the employer.

Petition to The Court for Minor Work Permit Under Age 14 by Employer.

Fact sheet: Explains when employers can and cannot employ minors under age 14 in non-agricultural jobs. Details the process for obtaining court permission when hiring minors under 14 is allowed.

Flier: Provides important information about hiring teens, including extra safety precautions, as well as legal requirements regarding minor work endorsement, hours and prohibited duties. Provides telephone, e-mail and Web contacts for more information.

Flier: Provides important information about hiring teens, including extra safety precautions, as well as legal requirements regarding minor work endorsement, hours and prohibited duties. Provides telephone, e-mail and Web contacts for more information.

Fact sheet: Provides an overview and resources to know your obligations when you have family members working for you. Relatives, including children, must be treated as employees with the same rights as any other paid worker in the state of Washington

Fact sheet: Provides an overview and resources to know your obligations when you have family members working for you. Relatives, including children, must be treated as employees with the same rights as any other paid worker in the state of Washington.

Fact sheet: Provides an overview and resources to know your obligations when you have family members working for you. Relatives, including children, must be treated as employees with the same rights as any other paid worker in the state of Washington.

Fact sheet: Provides an overview and resources to know your obligations when you have family members working for you. Relatives, including children, must be treated as employees with the same rights as any other paid worker in the state of Washington.

Link is to the Master Business License online form: Required for employers who hire minors and is obtained by completing the Master Business Application. Also available from L&I warehouse.

Nonagricultural Employment of Minors Chapter 296-125 WAC

Fact sheet: Overview of safety practices, plus information on what equipment employees under 18 can and cannot operate. Provides resources on requirements for hearing protection and PPE (personal protective equipment).

Ask L&I to conduct an investigation into a prevailing wage violation that affects one or more employees. See box 30 on the form to see what types of complaints are covered.

Fact Sheet: Download this checklist to help with the safety orientation of new restaurant employees.

Fact Sheet: A useful summary of the responsibilities both employers and employees share for a safe workplace. This can be shared with new employees during their initial orientation.

Used for Exceptions from the Hours of Work for Minors for Seasonal work. This form is a word document and can be completed electronically. If you have an electronic signature, you may use it on the form. You may save the form and send it as an attachment via email to the address at the top of the form, i.e., teensafety@Lni.wa.gov. If you do not have an electronic signature, complete the form, save it in your files, print it, sign it and fax or mail it to the address at the top of the form. Variance Application forms may be faxed to (360) 902-5300. If you would like the approved Variance Certificate faxed back to your business, please state so on your cover sheet.

Fact sheet: Explains the requirements for sports organizations that engage young people as volunteers or employees to referee, assist or work for the organizations. The focus is workers' compensation coverage and minor work rules.

Fact sheet: Covers availability, limitations and cost of Washington State's optional workers' compensation coverage for student volunteers.

Pamphlet/booklet: Answers questions employers, parents and teens may have about employing teen workers (ages 14-17). Explains non-agriculture work rules, including the necessary permits, hours and work conditions. Provides links to other resources.

Pamphlet/booklet: Answers questions employers, parents and teens may have about employing teen workers (ages 14-17). Explains non-agriculture work rules, including the necessary permits, hours and work conditions. Provides links to other resources.

Employer uses this application for requesting a variance to employment regulations for minors.

Fact sheet: Provides answers to questions related to pay requirements, deductions from pay, hiring a teen worker, employee uniforms and access to personnel file. Includes contact information if an employer needs assistance with a specific situation.

Pamphlet/booklet: Answers many questions employers and minor workers have about employing minors. Covers agriculture work rules, including the necessary permits, hours and work conditions for workers 12-17 years of age.

Booklet/pamphlet: Explains the limits on work teens under age 18 can perform in the construction industry, discusses the importance of training and emphasizes safety. Includes a checklist of "do's" and "don'ts" for employers, plus other resources.