A minor may not be employed in connection with the following:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 50-5-106

  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of labor and workforce development or the commissioner's designated representative. See Tennessee Code 50-5-102
  • Minor: means a person of either sex under eighteen (18) years of age, unless otherwise provided. See Tennessee Code 50-5-102
  • Sexual conduct: means actual or simulated sexual intercourse, sodomy, sexual bestiality, masturbation, sadomasochistic abuse, excretion, or the exhibition of the male or female genitals. See Tennessee Code 50-5-102
  • Youth peddling: means the selling of merchandise by a minor under sixteen (16) years of age to customers at the customer's residence, at a customer's place of business, or in public places such as street corners or public transportation stations. See Tennessee Code 50-5-102
(1) Occupations in or about plants or establishments manufacturing or storing explosives or articles containing explosive components;
(2) Motor vehicle driving occupations;
(3) Coal mine occupations;
(4) Logging occupations and occupations in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill or cooperage-stock mill;
(5) Occupations involved in the operation of power-driven woodworking machines;
(6) Occupations involving exposure to radioactive substances and to ionizing radiations;
(7) Occupations involved in the operation of elevator and other power-driven hoisting apparatus;
(8) Occupations involved in the operation of power-driven metal-forming, punching and shearing machines;
(9) Occupations in connection with mining elements other than coal;
(10) Occupations involving slaughtering, meat-packing, processing or rendering;
(11) Occupations involved in the operation of hazardous power-driven bakery machines;
(12) Occupations involved in the operation of hazardous power-driven paper products machines;
(13) Occupations involved in the manufacture of brick, tile and kindred products;
(14) Occupations involved in the operation of circular saws, band saws and guillotine shears;
(15) Occupations involved in wrecking, demolition and ship-breaking operations;
(16) Occupations involved in roofing operations;
(17) Occupations in excavation operations;
(18) [Repealed by 2023 amendment];
(19) Occupations that the commissioner shall by regulation, pursuant to this part, declare to be hazardous or injurious to the life, health, safety and welfare of minors;
(20)

(A) Occupations involving posing or modeling, alone or with others, while engaged in sexual conduct for the purpose of preparing a film, photograph, negative, slide or motion picture;
(B) As used in (20)(A), “sexual conduct” means actual or simulated conduct, sexual intercourse, sodomy, sexual bestiality, masturbation, sadomasochistic abuse, excretion, or the exhibition of the male or female genitals; and
(21) Occupations involved in youth peddling.
(b)

(1) If a minor is fifteen (15) years of age or younger, the minor must not be employed in a place of employment where the average monthly gross receipts from the sale of intoxicating beverages exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the total gross receipts of the place of employment or where a minor will be permitted to take orders for or serve intoxicating beverages, regardless of the amount of intoxicating beverages sold in the place of employment.
(2) If a minor is sixteen (16) or seventeen (17) years of age, the minor may be employed in a place of employment where the average monthly gross receipts from the sale of intoxicating beverages exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the total gross receipts of the place of employment if the minor is not permitted to take orders for or serve intoxicating beverages.
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