16 year old and work

lukieboy96

My son has just got a job with Anglian windows. Can anyone tell me how many hours he can work? He is studying A Levels.
I am confused by information i have looked up.

AP007

What have you looked up?

Savvy_Sue

I'm not sure there are restrictions now he's over the school leaving age, but there may be restrictions on what he can do, eg can he work on a building site at 16? Your local authority may be the people to ask: under school leaving age the employer has to submit a form to them, I believe.

bsms1147

Hours of work and rest breaks

16 – 18 year olds

If you are over school leaving age (see under heading General rules on employment) and under 18, the law says that you must not work more than eight hours a day, or more than 40 hours a week. You must have twelve hours rest between each working day, and two rest days per working week. You are also entitled to a 30-minute rest break when you work for longer than four and a half hours. There are some exceptions to this (see below).

There are special limits on the hours you can work at night. You cannot usually work between 10pm and 6am. If you are contracted to work after 10pm, you must stop work at 11pm and not start again before 7am. There are some exceptions for young people who work in hospitals, agriculture, retail, hotels and catering, bakeries, post/newspaper deliveries, or in connection with cultural, artistic, sporting or advertising activities. You are not allowed to work between midnight and 4am, except in the most exceptional circumstances.

The rules about working at night do not apply when:-

your employer needs you to work to maintain continuity of service or production, or to respond to a sudden rush in demand; and
doing the work would not affect your education or training; and
no adult is available to do the work; and
you are supervised by an adult (if this is necessary for your protection) and you are allowed a period of rest as compensation.
If you are allowed to work at night, you must first be given a free assessment of your health and ability to do the work. The assessment should be repeated at regular intervals. You must not work more than eight hours in a 24 hour period.


http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/work_e/work_young_people_e/young_people_and_employment.htm#Generalrulesonemployment

Magnolia

As a full time student doing A levels and so as to not impact on his study time the recommended hours of work are 12.

Savvy_Sue

Magnolia wrote: »

As a full time student doing A levels and so as to not impact on his study time the recommended hours of work are 12.

although the school / college may have other ideas! I'm sure the boys had 'guidance'.

spacey2012

If he has a chance to learn a trade, do not get in the way.
Every parent wants their child to be an academic qualified non hands dirty success.
The reality may well be that whilst his class mates are aged 22 still doing useless degrees that have no prospect of employment and tens of thousands of debt round their necks, your son has his own window fitting firm and is set up in life.
Someone has to get their hands dirty in life, you can not fit windows by clicking a mouse in an office.
A million young people are out of work, a great many of them are under the illusion that they are too good for hard work.
Get behind the lad, let him learn the trade, he will have a good living whilst his mates languish on the dole with folders full of certificates not worth the paper they are written on.

Achtung_Baby

Would he be working weekdays/nights that may conflict with 6th form, or would he be working weekends? No harm at all can come from 12-15 hours on a weekend really (I did the same when I was studying for A-Levels).

lukieboy96

Thank you. I had read the 12 hours as at school.

I have spoken to him about not letting it impact on his school work!

He is very keen to earn money, and very enthusiastic!

He will be doing a couple of hours after school, not sure how many days and a Saturday for 5 hours.

The school will be aware as he is in foster care and things are brought up at the meetings we have.