DWD 270.09(1)(e)(e) Time of beginning and ending of meal periods. When employee’s meal periods are required or when the meal periods are to be deducted from work time, this requirement shall not apply when work is of such a nature that production or business activity ceases on a regularly scheduled basis. DWD 270.09(1)(h)(h) The amount of and reason for each deduction from the wages earned. DWD 270.09(2)(2) The required records or a duplicate copy shall be kept safe and accessible at the place of employment or business at which the employee is employed or at one or more established central record-keeping offices in the state of Wisconsin. DWD 270.09(3)(3) The required records shall be made available for inspection and transcription by a duly authorized deputy of the department during the business hours generally observed by the office at which they are kept or in the community generally. DWD 270.09 HistoryHistory: CR 04-010: cr. Register November 2004 No. 587, eff. 12-1-04. DWD 270.10DWD 270.10 Minimum ages in various employments. A minor under 14 years of age may not be employed or permitted to work in any gainful occupation at any time, except that a minor under 14 years of age may be employed or permitted to work as follows to the extent permitted under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 USC 201 to 219: DWD 270.10(1)(1) School lunch. Minors 12 years of age or older may be employed in school lunch programs of the school that they attend. DWD 270.10(2)(2) Public exhibitions. Minors under 14 years of age may be employed in public exhibitions as provided in s. 103.78, Stats. DWD 270.10(3)(3) Street trades and fundraising. Minors 12 years of age or older may be employed in street trades, and any minor may work in fund–raising sales for nonprofit organizations, public schools, or private schools, as provided in ss. 103.21 to 103.31, Stats. DWD 270.10 NoteNote: 29 CFR 570.33 (e) prohibits minors who are 15 years of age or younger from operating, tending, setting up, adjusting, cleaning, oiling, or repairing power-driven golf carts. DWD 270.10(5)(5) Farming. Minors 12 years of age or older may be employed in farming. DWD 270.10(6)(6) Domestic employment. Minors 12 years of age or older may be employed in and around a home in work usual to the home of the employer, if the work is not in connection with or a part of the business, trade, or profession of the employer and the type of employment is not specifically prohibited by ss. 103.64 to 103.82, Stats., or this chapter. DWD 270.10(7)(7) Parents or guardians employing their own children. Unless prohibited under s. 103.65, minors of any age may be employed under the direct supervision of the minor’s parent or guardian in connection with the parent’s or guardian’s business, trade, or profession. DWD 270.10(8)(8) Football sideline officials. Minors 12 and 13 years of age may be employed as sideline officials to operate chains and the sideline marker for high school football games. DWD 270.10(9)(9) Officials for privately-sponsored athletic events. Minors 12 and 13 years of age may be employed under direct adult supervision as officials for athletic events sponsored by private, nonprofit organizations in which the minor would be eligible to participate or in which the participants are the same age as or younger than the minor. DWD 270.10(10)(10) Football ball monitors. Minors 11 to 13 years of age may be employed as ball monitors at high school football games and practices. DWD 270.10(11)(11) Restitution or community service. Minors under 14 years of age may be employed as participants in a restitution project under s. 938.245 (2) (a) 5., 938.32 (1t) (a), 938.34 (5), or 938.345, Stats., in a supervised work program or other community service work under s. 938.245 (2) (a) 6., 938.32 (1t) (b), 938.34 (5g), 938.343 (3), or 938.345, Stats., or in the community service component of a youth report center program under s. 938.245 (2) (a) 9m., 938.32 (1p), 938.34 (7j), 938.342 (1d) (c) or (1g) (k), 938.343 (3m), 938.344 (2g) (a) 5., 938.345, or 938.355 (6) (d) 5. or (6m) (a) 4., Stats. DWD 270.10 HistoryHistory: CR 04-010: cr. Register November 2004 No. 587, eff. 12-1-04; CR 26-015: r. (1), r. (2) (title), renum. (2) (intro.), (a) to (k) to (intro.)., (1) to (11) and, as renumbered, am. (4), (7) Register May 2026 No. 845, eff. 6-1-26. DWD 270.11DWD 270.11 Hours of labor of minors. The following requirements modify s. 103.68, Stats., as provided under s. 103.66, Stats., and shall be deemed to be necessary to protect minors from employment dangerous or prejudicial to their life, health, safety, or welfare: DWD 270.11(1m)(1m) Work experience program. Hours worked as part of a work experience program during school hours shall not count as part of the total permitted hours of work per day or per week. DWD 270.11(4)(d)(d) Minors 12 to 15 years of age who participate in a home-based private educational program, as defined in s. 115.001 (3g), Stats., that meets all the criteria under s. 118.165 (1), Stats., may work the same hours as if they were enrolled in public school as provided in s. 103.68 (2), Stats. DWD 270.11(4)(e)(e) Minors who are enrolled in a charter school may not work during hours they are scheduled to be in the charter school. DWD 270.11 HistoryHistory: CR 04-010: cr. Register November 2004 No. 587, eff. 12-1-04; CR 26-015: am. (intro.), r. (1) (title), (a) to (d), renum. (1) (e) to (1m), r. (2), (3), am. (4) (title), r. (4) (a) to (c), am. (4) (d) Register May 2026 No. 845, eff. 6-1-26. DWD 270.12DWD 270.12 Hazardous occupations prohibited to all minors. The employment of minors in the following occupations or places of employment shall be deemed to be dangerous or prejudicial to the life, health, safety, or welfare of the minor and other employees or frequenters, except as provided in s. DWD 270.14. No employer may employ or permit any minor to work in the following occupations or places of employment: DWD 270.12(1)(1) Adult bookstores. No minor may be employed in an adult bookstore. DWD 270.12(2)(2) Amusement parks, ski hills, street carnivals, and traveling shows. DWD 270.12(2)(a)(a) Prohibition. Except as provided in par. (c), no minor may be employed in operating, assisting to operate, erecting, dismantling, setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling, or cleaning of any rides or machinery, or the loading or unloading of passengers, in the operation of amusement park rides, ski hills, street carnivals, or traveling shows. DWD 270.12(2)(b)1.1. “Amusement park ride” means a device or animal that carries, transports, or supports passengers in unusual, entertaining, or thrilling modes of motion and any vehicle providing entertainment or transportation in conjunction with an amusement park ride, including rider-powered and power-driven thrill rides, mild rides, ride-throughs, walk-throughs, air pillows, giant slides, water slides, and animal rides. Vehicles include parking lot trams, old fire engines, stagecoaches, and trains. “Amusement park ride” does not include aircraft under the jurisdiction of the federal aviation administration, railroad trains under the jurisdiction of the federal railroad administration, or boats used on navigable waters. DWD 270.12(2)(b)2.2. “Water slide” means a slide that incorporates a flow of water intended to carry a rider down a flume and that is required under s. ATCP 76.23 (1) (d) to have an attendant stationed at the entrance to enforce slide usage rules. “Water slide” does not include a slide that meets all of the following conditions: DWD 270.12(2)(b)2.a.a. The slide is less than or equal to 6 feet high as measured vertically from the slide entrance to the deck. DWD 270.12(2)(b)2.b.b. The user has a clear view of the landing area when measured from the slide entrance at a height of 43 inches. DWD 270.12(2)(c)(c) Exception. Minors 16 and 17 years of age may be employed in occupations involving the loading or unloading of passengers on water slides. DWD 270.12(3)(3) Asbestos, chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, tremolite, anthophyllite, and actinolite. No minor may be employed in occupations or duties involving exposure to asbestos, chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, tremolite, anthophyllite, or actinolite. DWD 270.12(4)(am)(am) Prohibitions. Except as provided in par. (bm), no minor may be employed in the following duties related to the operation of power–driven bakery machines: DWD 270.12(4)(am)1.1. Operating, assisting to operate, setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling, or cleaning any horizontal or vertical dough mixer; batter mixer; bread dividing, rounding, or molding machine; doughbrake; dough sheeter; combination bread slicing and wrapping machine; or cake cutting band saw. DWD 270.12(4)(bm)1.1. Minors 16 and 17 years of age may be employed in the operation, including the setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling and cleaning, of lightweight, small capacity, portable counter-top power-driven food mixers that are, or are comparable to, models intended for household use. For purposes of this subdivision, a lightweight, small capacity mixer is one that is not hardwired into the establishment's power source, is equipped with a motor that operates at no more than 1/2 horsepower and is equipped with a bowl with a capacity of no more than five quarts. This subdivision does not apply when a mixer is used, with or without attachments to process meat products as prohibited by s. DWD 270.18 (a) 4. DWD 270.12(4)(bm)2.2. Except as provided in subd. 3., minors 16 and 17 years of age may be employed in the operation of dough sheeters that are pizza-dough rollers and that have all of the following safeguards: DWD 270.12(4)(bm)2.a.a. The rollers have been constructed with safeguards contained in the basic design so as to prevent fingers, hands, or clothing from being caught in the in-running point of the rollers. DWD 270.12(4)(bm)2.c.c. The rollers have microswitches that disengage the machinery if the backs or sides of the rollers are removed. DWD 270.12(4)(bm)3.3. Subdivision 2. applies only when all the safeguards detailed in subd. 2. are present on the machine, are operational, and have not been overridden. Subdivision 2. does not apply to the setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling, or cleaning of pizza-dough rollers. DWD 270.12(5)(5) Bingo. No minor may be employed in conducting or assisting in the conducting of a bingo game. DWD 270.12(6)(a)(a) Prohibitions. No minor may be employed in the following occupations involved in the manufacture of clay construction products and of silica refractory products: DWD 270.12(6)(a)1.1. All work in or about establishments in which clay construction products are manufactured, except work in storage and shipping; work in offices, laboratories, and storerooms; and work in the drying departments of plants manufacturing sewer pipe. DWD 270.12(6)(a)2.2. All work in or about establishments in which silica brick or other silica refractories are manufactured, except work in offices. DWD 270.12(6)(b)1.1. “Clay construction products” means the following clay products: Brick, hollow structural tile, sewer pipe and similar products, refractories, and other clay products such as architectural terra cotta, glazed structural tile, roofing tile, stove lining, chimney pipes and tops, wall coping, and drain tile. DWD 270.12(6)(b)2.a.a. Nonstructural–bearing clay products such as ceramic floor and wall tile, mosaic tile, glazed and enameled tile, faience, and similar tile. DWD 270.12(6)(b)2.b.b. Non-clay construction products such as sand–lime brick, glass brick, or nonclay refractories. DWD 270.12(6)(b)3.3. “Silica brick or other silica refractories” means refractory products produced from raw materials containing free silica as their main constituent. DWD 270.12(7)(a)(a) No minor may be employed in any occupation or have duties in an environment which by design or construction has limited openings for entry and egress, has unfavorable natural ventilation, could reasonably be believed by the employer to have dangerous air contaminants or contain materials that may produce dangerous air contaminants, and is not intended for human occupancy. DWD 270.12(7)(b)(b) Confined spaces include storage tanks, compartments of ships, process vessels, pits, silos, vats, degreasers, reaction vessels, boilers, ventilation and exhaust ducts, manholes, sewers, underground utility vaults, and pipelines. Confined spaces do not include heating system tunnels and heating system vaults. DWD 270.12(8)(a)(a) Prohibition and exception. No minor may be employed in any occupation in or about a coal mine, except the occupation of refuse picking at a picking table or picking chute in a tipple or breaker and occupations requiring the performance of duties solely in offices or in repair or maintenance shops located on the surface of a coal mining plant. DWD 270.12(8)(b)1.1. “Any occupation in or about a coal mine” means all types of work performed in any underground working, open–pit, or surface part of any coal mining plant that involves the extraction, grading, cleaning, or other handling of coal. DWD 270.12(8)(b)2.2. “Coal” means any rank of coal, including lignite, bituminous, and anthracite coals. DWD 270.12(9)(9) Excavation operations. No minor may be employed in any of the following occupations in excavation operations: DWD 270.12(9)(a)(a) Excavating, working in, or backfilling trenches, except manually excavating or manually backfilling trenches that do not exceed 4 feet in depth at any point, or working in trenches that do not exceed 4 feet in depth at any point. DWD 270.12(9)(b)(b) Excavating for buildings or other structures or working in such excavations, except manually excavating to a depth not exceeding 4 feet below any ground surface adjoining the excavation, or working in an excavation not exceeding such depth, or working in an excavation where the side walls are shored or sloped to the angle of repose. DWD 270.12(9)(c)(c) Working within tunnels prior to the completion of all driving and shoring operations. DWD 270.12(9)(d)(d) Working within shafts prior to the completion of all sinking and shoring operations. DWD 270.12(10)(10) Exotic dancer. No minor may be employed as an exotic dancer. DWD 270.12(11)(a)(a) Prohibition. No minor may be employed in any occupation in or about plants or establishments manufacturing or storing explosives or articles containing explosive components except as provided in par. (b). DWD 270.12(11)(b)1.1. A minor may be employed in a retail establishment in which explosives are sold. DWD 270.12(11)(b)2.2. A minor may be employed in the following occupations in or about any plant or establishment manufacturing or storing small arms ammunition not exceeding .60 caliber in size, shotgun shells, or blasting caps when manufactured or stored in conjunction with the manufacture of small arms ammunition: DWD 270.12(11)(b)2.a.a. All occupations involved in the manufacturing, mixing, transporting, or handling of explosive compounds in the manufacture of small arms ammunition and all other occupations requiring the performance of any duties in the explosives area in which ex-plosive compounds are manufactured or mixed. DWD 270.12(11)(b)2.b.b. All occupations involved in the manufacturing, transporting, or handling of primers and all other occupations requiring the performance of any duties in the same building in which primers are manufactured. DWD 270.12(11)(b)2.c.c. All occupations involved in the priming of cartridges and all other occupations requiring the performance of any duties in the same workroom in which rim–fire cartridges are primed. DWD 270.12(11)(b)2.d.d. All occupations involved in the plate loading of cartridges and in the operation of automatic loading machines. DWD 270.12(11)(b)2.e.e. All occupations involved in the loading, inspecting, packing, shipping, and storage of blasting caps. DWD 270.12(11)(b)3.3. A minor may be employed in occupations performed in an area that meets all of the following criteria:
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