Connecticut Restaurant and Food Service - Minors Poster

Connecticut Law (C.G.S. 31-18) Regarding

Employment of Minors
in Restaurant/Food Service
s
Time and Hour Restrictions
for Young Persons Under Age 18
During school weeks (16-17 years of age):
6 a.m. to 11 p.m. (midnight if no school the next day) no more than
6 hours per day/32 hours per week.
No more than 8 hours per day on non-school days or days not
preceding a school day (generally Friday, Saturday or Sunday).

During non-school weeks (16-17 years of age):
8 hours per day/48 hours per week - no more than 6 days per week.

Minors who have withdrawn from school
may work no more than 9 hours per day within the times
listed for non-school weeks.

No person under age 16 may be employed
in a restaurant or public dining room.

Minimum Wage
$14.00 per hour effective July 1, 2022
$15.00 per hour effective June 1, 2023
Annually indexed to cost of living effective Jan. 1, 2024
Minors m a y be paid 85% of Minimum Wage during their
first 90 days of employment.

A Statement of Age/Working Paper is required for all
employees under the age of 18.
Inquiries or complaints of violation should be sent to:
Connecticut Department of Labor - Wage & Workplace Standards Division
200 Folly Brook Boulevard - Wethersfield, CT 06109
(860) 263-6791 - www.ct.gov/dol

WPR-1 (Rev 4/23)

This notice shall be posted in a conspicuous place in rooms
where minors are employed. See applicable laws on back.

RESTAURANT-RELATED CONNECTICUT GENERAL STATUTES
Sec. 31-23. Employment of minors prohibited in certain occupations. Exceptions. (a) No minor under sixteen years of
age shall be employed or permitted to work in any manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or theatrical industry, restaurant or
public dining room, or in any bowling alley, shoe-shining establishment or barber shop, provided the Labor Commissioner
may authorize such employment of any minor between the ages of fourteen and sixteen who is enrolled in (1) a public school
in a work-study program as defined and approved by the Commissioner of Education and the Labor Commissioner or in a
program established pursuant to section 10-20a, or (2) a summer work-recreation program sponsored by a town, city or
borough or by a human resources development agency which has been approved by the Labor Commissioner, or both, and
provided the prohibitions of this section shall not apply to any minor over the age of fourteen who is under vocational
probation pursuant to an order of the Superior Court as provided in section 46b-140 or to any minor over the age of fourteen
who has been placed on vocational parole by the Commissioner of Children and Families.
(d) Each person who employs a minor under the age of eighteen years shall obtain a certificate stating the age of such minor
as provided in section 10-193. Such certificates shall be kept on file at the place of employment and shall be available at all
times during business hours to the inspectors of the Labor Department.
Sec. 31-18. Hours of labor of minors, elderly and handicapped persons in certain other establishments. (a) No public
restaurant, cafe, dining room, barber shop, hairdressing or manicuring establishment, amusement or recreational
establishment, bowling alley, shoe-shining establishment, billiard or pool room or photograph gallery shall employ or permit
to work any person under eighteen years of age (1) between the hours of ten o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the
morning, provided any person between sixteen and eighteen years of age may be employed in any amusement or recreational
establishment, restaurant, cafe or dining room, or employed in any theater until twelve o'clock midnight unless such person
is regularly attending school in which case such person may be employed until eleven o'clock in the evening on days which
precede a regularly scheduled school day and until twelve o'clock midnight during any regular school vacation season and on
days which do not precede a regularly scheduled school day, and (2) more than (A) six hours in any regularly scheduled
school day unless the regularly scheduled school day immediately precedes a nonschool day or eight hours in any other day,
and (B) thirty-two hours in any calendar week during which the school in which such person is enrolled is in session or
forty-eight hours in any other calendar week during which the school in which such person is enrolled is not in session.
Notwithstanding any provision of this section, the number of hours such person participates in a work experience that is part
of an approved educational plan, cooperative program or school-to-work program shall not be counted against the daily or
weekly limits set forth in this section.
(b) The hours of labor of such persons shall be conspicuously posted in such establishment in such form and manner as the
Labor Commissioner determines.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person under eighteen years of age who has graduated from a
secondary educational institution.
Sec. 31-15a. Criminal penalty. Any employer, officer, agent or other person who violates any provision of section 31-12,
31-13 or 31-14, subsection (a) of section 31-15 or section 31-18, 31-23 or 31-24 shall be fined not less than two thousand nor
more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, for each offense.
Sec. 31-69a. Additional penalty. (a) In addition to the penalties provided in this chapter and chapter 568, any employer,
officer, agent or other person who violates any provision of this chapter, chapter 557 or subsection (g) of section 31-288
shall be liable to the Labor Department for a civil penalty of three hundred dollars for each violation of said chapters and for
each violation of subsection (g) of section 31-288, except that (1) any person who violates (A) a stop work order issued
pursuant to subsection (c) of section 31-76a shall be liable to the Labor Department for a civil penalty of one thousand
dollars and each day of such violation shall constitute a separate offense, and (B) any provision of section 31-12, 31-13 or
31-14, subsection (a) of section 31-15 or section 31-18, 31-23 or 31-24 shall be liable to the Labor Department for a civil
penalty of six hundred dollars for each violation of said sections, and (2) a violation of subsection (g) of section 31-288 shall
constitute a separate offense for each day of such violation.
(b) Any employer, officer, agent or other person who violates any provision of chapter 563a may be liable to the Labor
Department for a civil penalty of not greater than five hundred dollars for the first violation of chapter 563a related to an
individual employee or former employee, and for each subsequent violation of said chapter related to such individual
employee or former employee, may be liable to the Labor Department for a civil penalty of not greater than one thousand
dollars. In setting a civil penalty for any violation in a particular case, the Labor Commissioner shall consider all factors
which the commissioner deems relevant, including, but not limited to, (1) the level of assessment necessary to insure
immediate and continued compliance with the provisions of chapter 563a; (2) the character and degree of impact of the
violation; and (3) any prior violations of such employer of chapter 563a.