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North Carolina Child Labor Law News

January 7th, 2007 Posted by Mark

Employers who need work for the summer can know the difficulty of getting help from your area’s high school teens and other 18 and unders who want to work for you. To be legal in North Carolina (and in most states), these minors need to have the right work permits, and they need to apply for them in time to have them for when they are due to start working for you. This can sometimes be a hassle and lead to delays for them starting to work for you, which can mean some hectic scheduling when that summer season or holiday season kicks into high gear.

The North Carolina Department of Labor is making it a little easier on you employers who rely on minors to work in your shop, warehouse, convenience store, super market, or what have you. The North Carolina Department of Labor has set up a new online way for teens to apply for work permits, which should streamline the whole process. In fact, teens are so adapt at using the computer and at doing things online, this should make it a snap—perhaps even fun—for them to apply for their work permit.

The North Carolina Department of Labor actually launched the online program, called YEC Auto, last year. It simply is a site on the Web where teens and their employers can directly link up with the Department of Labor and get help securing a youth employment certificate.

What the program does best is make the waiting period for this work permit reduce down to near nil. With the online system, minors and their employers can expect to receive a work permit within minutes. Yup, you heard that right—minutes. You would think that there wasn’t even a bureaucracy involved in the process. That is the power of the Internet when it is properly harnessed.