Working Papers

Parents and students, please download, print, and fill out both the Application for Employment Certificate, Application for Employment Permit, and have your healthcare provider complete the Physical Fitness Certification and return documents to the school registrar office for certification.

Parent to fill out Part I and Part II to the X. Please remember to sign. 

The back (2nd page) of the application needs to be filled out by the Physician or a current physical needs to be attached. The Physical needs to be in the past 12 months. 

Student will return the form(s) to school (June Barriger). A working card then can be issued 

GENERAL INFORMATION 

An employment Certificate (Student Nonfactory, Student General, or Full Time) may be used for an unlimited number of successive job placements in lawful employment permitted by the particular type of certificate. 

A Nonfactory Employment Certificate is valid for 2 years from the date of issuance or until the student turns 16 years old, with the exception of a Limited Employment Certificate. A Limited Employment Certificate is valid for a maximum of 6 months unless the limitation noted by the physician is permanent, then the certificate will remain valid until the minor changes job. It may be accepted only by the employer indicated on the certificate. 

A new Certificate of Physical Fitness is required when applying for a different type of employment certificate, if more than 12 months have elapsed since the previous physical for employment. 

An employer shall retain the certificate on file for the duration of the minor’s employment. Upon termination of employment, or expiration of the employment certificate’s period of validity, the certificate shall be returned to the minor. A certificate may be revoked by school district authorities for cause. 

A minor employed as a Newspaper Carrier, Street Trades Worker, Farmworker, must obtain the Special Occupational Permit required. 

A minor 14 years of age and over may be employed as a caddy, babysitter, or in casual employment consisting of yard work and household chores when not required to attend school. Employment certification for such employment is not mandatory. 

An employer of a minor in an occupation which does not require employment certification should request a Certificate of Age. 

PROHIBITED EMPLOYMENT 

Minors 14 and 15 years may not be employed in, or in connection with a factory (except in delivery and clerical employment in an enclosed office thereof), or in certain hazardous occupations such as: construction work; helper on a motor vehicle; operation of washing, grinding, cutting, slicing, pressing or mixing machinery in any establishment; painting or exterior cleaning in connection with the maintenance of a building or structure; and others listed in Section 133 of the New York State Labor Law. 

Minors 16 and 17 years of age may not be employed in certain hazardous occupations such as: construction worker; helper on a motor vehicle, the operation of various kinds of power-driver machinery; and others listed in Section 133 of the New York State Labor Law. 

HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT

Minors may not be employed during the hours they are required to attend school.
Minors 14 and 15 years of age may not be employed in any occupation (except farmwork and delivering, or selling and delivering newspapers):

When school is in session:

  • more than 3 hours on any school day, more than 8 hours on a nonschool day, more than 6 days in any week, for a maximum of 18 hours per week, or a maximum of 23 hours per week if enrolled in a supervised work study program approved by the Commissioner.

  • after 7 p.m. or before 7 a.m.

When school is not in session:

  • more than 8 hours on any day, 6 days in any week, for a maximum of 40 hours per week.

  • after 9 p.m. or before 7 a.m.

This certificate is not valid for work associated with newspaper carrier, agriculture or modeling.

Minors 16 and 17 years of age may not be employed: --

When school is in session:

  • more than 4 hours on days preceding school days; more than 8 hours on days not preceding school days (Friday, Saturday, Sunday and holidays), 6 days in any week, for a maximum of 28 hours per week.

  • between 10 p.m. and 12 midnight on days followed by a school day without written consent of parent of guardian and a certificate of satisfactory academic standing from the minor’s school (to be validated at the end of each marking period).

  • between 10 p.m. and 12 midnight on days not followed by a school day without written consent of parent or guardian.

When school is not in session:

  • more than 8 hours on any day, 6 days in any week, for a maximum of 48 hours per week.

EDUCATION LAW, SECTION 3233
“Any person who knowingly makes a false statement in or in relation to any application made for an employment certificate or permit as to any matter by this chapter to appear in any affidavit, record, transcript, certificate or permit therein provided for, is guilty of a misdemeanor.”