Work Permits
Instructions
Students must have a job offer before they can get a work permit. When a student is offered a job, they can have their new employer sign a B1-1 form (Request for Work Permit).
Find a job, check Petaluma Workability for current job listings. (If you have an IEP they can also help you find a job.)
Hand deliver or email your employer a B1-1 (Request for Work Permit), blank paper copies are available outside the CCC in the Library.
We are required to make sure you read about your RIGHTS as a worker. Please read the KNOW YOUR RIGHTS fact sheet from the labor center at Berkeley.
Fill out with STUDENT, PARENT & EMPLOYER signatures.
Drop off completed B1-1 to the CCC or email attachment to mdodsworth@petk12.org
Your WORK PERMIT will be issued and printed within 24-48hrs during school hours (Monday-Friday 8AM-3PM). We will also give you a printed copy of the Know Your Rights Information Sheet.
Work permits are valid from August for one year. You’ll need a new one each August.
During the summer stop by the district office or email completed applications to ksmith@petk12.org
Work Permit Policy for Petaluma High School
In order to obtain a work permit, students must maintain satisfactory grades - 2.0 GPA or higher at the end of the previous grading period - and attendance. Students that fall below the PHS standard in grades or attendance will be in jeopardy of losing their work permit.
For more information regarding the attendance policy please see pages 15-17 in The Parent Student Handbook.
Additional Work Permit Information
Work Permits for Students link to CDE
AGES: 16 – 17
When school is in session:
Daily maximum 4 hours, Monday through Thursday. May work up to 8 hours on any non-school day or on any day that precedes a non-school day. May be permitted to work up to 48 hours per week.
When school is not in session: (summer, spring and winter break)
Daily maximum 8 hours and weekly maximum 48 hours.
Work must be performed between 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. However, until 12:30 a.m. on any evening preceding a non-school day.
AGES: 14 – 15
When school is in session:
Daily maximum 3 hours, Monday through Thursday. Weekly maximum 18 hours. May work 8 hours on Saturday and Sunday.
When school is not in session: (summer, spring and winter break)
Daily maximum 8 hours and weekly maximum 40 hours.
Work must be performed between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. any day of the week. May work from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. when school is not in session.
Younger than 14
Labor laws generally prohibit non-farm employment of children younger than 14. Special rules apply to agricultural work, domestic work, and the entertainment industry.
General Summary of Minors’ Work Regulations
State child labor laws and the child labor provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) govern most California employers. If federal laws, state laws, and school district policies conflict, the more restrictive law (that which is most protective of the employee) prevails.
Generally, minors must attend school until age 18 unless they are 16 years or older and have graduated from high school or received a state Certificate of Proficiency.
Minors under the age of 18 may not work in occupations declared hazardous for young workers as listed below.
Power-driven food slicing/processing
Motor vehicle driving/outside helper
Power baking/dough making machines
Power-driven paper products/paper bailing
Logging and saw-milling
Power-driven woodworking machines
Manufacturing brick, tile products
Power-driven hoists/forklifts
Excavation operations
Power-driven metal forming, punching, & shearing machines
Explosives
Feed box crusher
Radiation exposure
Coal mining
Human Directional Sign
Power saws and shears
Wrecking, demolition
Roofing
Other mining
For more information about hazardous occupations, contact the U.S. Department of Labor (Child Labor Bulletins 101 and 102) and the California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. Regional offices are located in several California cities. They are listed in the “Government Listings” sections of telephone directories.
Labor laws set the basic minimum age of 16 years for general employment. Persons younger than 16 years are allowed to work only in limited, specified occupations that exclude baking, manufacturing, processing, construction, warehouse, and transportation occupations.
Labor laws applicable to adult employees are also generally applicable to minor employees, including workers’ compensation insurance requirements. Child labor laws do not generally apply to minors who deliver newspapers or work at odd jobs, such as yard work and baby-sitting, or in private homes where the minor is not regularly employed.
Employers of minors required to attend school must complete a “Statement of Intent to Employ Minor and Request for Work Permit Certificate of Age” (form B1-1) for the school district of attendance for each such minor. Employers must themselves have on file for each such minor a “Permit to Employ and Work” (form B1-4). Work permits (B1-4) must be open at all times for inspection by sanctioned authorities.
A work permit (B1-4) must be revoked whenever the issuing authority determines the employment is illegal or is impairing the health or education of the minor.