Sec.31-60-6. Minors under the age of eighteen

(a) For purposes of this regulation, "minor" means a person at least sixteen years of age but not over eighteen years of age. To prevent curtailment of employment opportunities for minors and to provide a reasonable period during which training for adjustment to employment conditions may be accomplished, a minor may be employed at a modification of the minimum fair wage established by subsection (j) of section 31-58 of the 1971 Supplement to the General Statutes, but at not less than eighty-five percent of the minimum fair wage established by subsection (j) of section 31-58 of the Connecticut General Statutes per hour for the first two hundred hours of employment. When a minor has had an aggregate of two hundred hours of employment, he may not be employed by the same or any other employer at less than the minimum fair wage established by subsection (j) of section 31-58 of the Connecticut General Statutes.

(b) In addition to the records required by section 31-66 of the 1966 supplement to the general statutes and section 31-60-13, each employer shall obtain from each minor to be employed at a modification of the minimum fair wage rate as herein provided a statement of his employment prior to his date of accession with his present employer. Such statement of prior employment, supplemented by the present employer's record of hours worked by the minor while in his employ, will be deemed satisfactory evidence of good faith on the part of the employer with respect to his adherence to the provisions of this regulation, provided such record shall be in complete compliance with the requirements of section 31-66 of the general statutes and section 31-60-12.

(c) Deviation from the provisions of this regulation will cancel the modification of the minimum fair wage herein provided for all hours during which the violation prevailed and for such time the minimum wage shall be paid.

(Effective August 8, 1972; Amended January 4, 2001)