---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 570.118"
title: "29"
number: "570.118"
heading: "Sixteen-year minimum."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/570.118"
---

# §570.118. Sixteen-year minimum.


The Act sets a 16-year-age minimum for employment in manufacturing or mining occupations, although under FLSA [section 13(c)(7)](/cfr/29/13.md?p=c-7), certain youth between the ages of 14 and 18 may, under specific conditions, be employed inside and outside of places of business that use power-driven machinery to process wood products. Furthermore, the 16-year-age minimum for employment is applicable to employment in all other occupations unless otherwise provided by regulation or order issued by the Secretary.


## Notes

### Amendments

[75 FR 28458, May 20, 2010]

### Authority

Authority: 52 Stat. 1060-1069, as amended; 29 U.S.C. 201-219; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990); Pub. L. 114-74 at sec. 701.

### Source

Source: 16 FR 7008, July 20, 1951, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 28 FR 1634, Feb. 21, 1963, and further redesignated and amended at 36 FR 25156, Dec. 29, 1971.

### Amendments

[75 FR 28458, May 20, 2010]