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Employer
Employers take on young people as paid employees, either part-time as a Teen Temp or on Apprenticeships (four days a week with release for training on the fifth).
Teen Temps
“We’ve been delighted by the quality of young staff we have recruited through work experience” – Emma Ireland, HR Manager, McDonalds
You can employ a 15-16 year old school student for up to 12 hours per week outside school hours (35 hours per week in holidays). National minimum wage doesn’t apply but the young person must be issued with a work permit by the Education Welfare Service. We will organise this for you.
We can advertise your ‘Teen Temp’ work vacancies for young people on our website. We can also link you with strongest candidates based on their employability ratings in Work Experience reports.
Many 15-16 year olds want to do some paid work alongside school studies. Paid work gives them responsibility and respect, as well as the reward of hard cash. It affirms a young person’s self-value – an important rite of passage to responsible citizenship.
Regulations
You can employ a young person aged 13-16 for up to 12 hours per week outside school hours (35 hours per week in holidays)
- Not before 7am or after 7pm
- No more than two hours on a school day, max 2 hours on a Sunday
- For 13-14 year olds, max 5 hours per day up to 12 hours per week in term time, 25 hours per week in holidays
- For 15-16 year olds, max 8 hours per day up to 12 hours per week in term time, 35 hours per week in holidays
- Minimum 1 hour break after 4 hours work
- At least two consecutive weeks each year free from school and from employment
- Employer must carry out a Health & Safety Risk Assessment
- Young people of compulsory school age can only be employed in Milton Keynes if they have been issued with a permit by MK Education Welfare Service (see Countec website). Countec will help organise this.
Applying for a Work Permit
Employers in Milton Keynes are responsible for applying for a work permit for each young person they employ in Milton Keynes, regardless of where the young person lives.
The following links will take you to the forms that need to be completed by the employer, signed by the parent (in addition to the medical declaration) and then forwarded to the Education Welfare Service for authorisation.
PLEASE NOTE: Both of the above forms need to be completed and returned together to the Education Welfare Service
Prohibited Employment
No child of statutory school age may be employed, for reward or no reward:
- to deliver milk
- to deliver fuel oils
- in a commercial kitchen
- in a slaughterhouse or any part of a butcher's shop
- in any work higher than 3 metres above the ground or floor level
- to collect or sort refuse
- to collect money or to sell or canvass door to door
- in employment involving harmful exposure to physical, biological or chemical agents
- in any work involving exposure to adult material or situations unsuitable for children
- in telephone sales
- in a cinema, theatre, dance hall or night club, except in connection with a performance given by children, for which a licence has been granted
- on garage premises or selling petrol
- in a bar or licensed premises during opening hours
- in a licensed betting office
- at any machine prescribed as dangerous.
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