Title 409, YOUTH EMPLOYMENT

Sec. 5. (1) Work training programs conducted under this act shall provide corpsmembers with work experience related to the conservation, improvement, or development of natural, cultural, and recreational resources and the enhancement, preservation, and maintenance of public lands…

Sec. 6a. An individual is eligible to become a corpsmember if he or she meets all of the following requirements: (a) Is a resident of the state. (b) Except for supervisors, mentors, instructors, and trainers, is not less than 17 years of age and not more than 27 years of age on t…

Sec. 7. (1) The department shall not employ a corpsmember for more than 2 years. (2) The department shall compensate a corpsmember at not more than twice the minimum wage established by law at the time of employment. (3) The department may utilize corps funds for mentors, instruc…

Sec. 8. The department shall provide worker's disability compensation insurance for corpsmembers employed by the department, as provided under the worker's disability compensation act of 1969, 1969 PA 317, MCL 418.101 to 419.941.

Sec. 9. Corpsmembers shall not receive state employee health benefits, except that corpsmembers who at the time of hire were receiving general assistance or aid to families with dependent children shall continue to receive, while they are corpsmembers, the medical benefits provid…

Sec. 10. Corpsmembers shall not be considered state employees for purposes of membership in the state employees' retirement system.

Sec. 11. The corps programs established under this act shall not be designed so as to displace currently employed workers, and no corpsmember shall be used in any manner in connection with a work or labor dispute.

Sec. 12a. (1) The Michigan civilian conservation corps endowment fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the endowment fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the endowm…

Sec. 13. The legislature annually shall appropriate not less than 85% of the interest and earnings of the endowment fund for the operation of the corps.

Sec. 14. If the director determines that the benefits to the state from the corps can be achieved in a more practicable manner through an entity identified or established pursuant to chapter II, the director may do both of the following: (a) Enter into agreements with the entity …

Sec. 21. As used in this chapter: (a) "Committee" means the Michigan civilian conservation corps partnership steering committee created in section 22. (b) "Corps" means the Michigan civilian conservation corps established pursuant to this chapter. (c) "Corpsmember" means a partic…

Sec. 22. (1) The Michigan civilian conservation corps partnership steering committee is created in the department. (2) The committee shall consist of the following members, appointed by the director in consultation with the directors of the departments of agriculture and rural de…

Sec. 23. (1) The committee shall seek out an entity that is willing to establish and operate a Michigan civilian conservation corps, in compliance with this chapter, for the purpose of doing all of the following: (a) Conserving, improving, and developing this state's natural, cul…

Sec. 24. (1) Work training programs conducted by the corps shall provide corpsmembers with work experience related to the conservation, improvement, or development of natural, cultural, and recreational resources and the enhancement, preservation, and maintenance of public lands,…

Sec. 25. (1) An individual is eligible to become a corpsmember if he or she meets all of the following requirements: (a) Is a resident of the state. (b) Is not less than 17 years of age and, except for supervisors, mentors, instructors, and trainers, is not more than 27 years of …

Sec. 26. The corps shall do both of the following: (a) Contact colleges and universities in this state with natural, cultural, or recreational resource related curricula to facilitate university-based programs that will do 1 or more of the following: (i) Provide credit to corpsme…

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Michigan youth corps act".

Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) "Minority" means a person who is black, hispanic, oriental, eskimo, or an American Indian who is not less than 1/4 quantum Indian blood as certified by the person's tribal association and verified by the Indian affairs commission. (b) "Participant…

Sec. 3. The Michigan youth corps program is established in the department of labor. Funds to implement the program shall be disbursed to state departments as provided by law.

Sec. 4. (1) With the funds disbursed as provided in section 3, each state department shall establish summer youth employment and work training programs to accomplish that state department's programs, or shall administer on a contractual basis a grant program which dispenses funds…

Sec. 5. (1) A potential recipient may apply to either a state department or the director of the Michigan youth corps program for a grant under this act. The director shall review and refer qualified applications so received to the appropriate state department. (2) A state departm…

Sec. 6. (1) Persons hired as participants by a state department or a recipient under the Michigan youth corps program shall meet all of the following: (a) Be residents of the state. (b) Be not younger than 18 years of age and not older than 21 years of age on the date of applicat…

Sec. 7. (1) Permanent full-time positions in the state classified civil service shall not be added or eliminated as a result of hiring under this act. (2) Recipients shall not add or eliminate permanent full-time positions as a result of hiring under this act. Any willful violati…

Sec. 8. (1) The governor shall appoint a Michigan youth corps program director who may adopt guidelines, promulgate rules, and take any other action to implement the program. (2) The Michigan youth corps program director shall specify the minimum provisions to be incorporated int…

Sec. 8a. A private sector advisory task force, consisting of 9 representatives of the private sector, shall be created. Of the 9 members, 3 shall be appointed by the governor, 3 shall be appointed by the senate majority leader, and 3 shall be appointed by the speaker of the house…

Sec. 9. Sections 1 through 8 shall not apply after September 30, 1986.

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "youth employment standards act".

Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) "Department" means the department of labor and economic opportunity. (b) "Director" means the director of the department or the director's designee. (c) "Employ" means engage, permit, or allow to work. (d) "Employer" means a person, firm, or corpo…

Sec. 3. (1) A minor shall not be employed in, about, or in connection with an occupation that is hazardous or injurious to the minor's health or personal well-being or that is contrary to standards established under this act, unless a deviation is granted under section 20. (2) Th…

Sec. 4. (1) Except as provided in subsection (3), before the date that is 18 months after the effective date of the amendatory act that added section 4a, a minor must not be employed in an occupation regulated by this act until the person proposing to employ the minor procures fr…

Sec. 4a. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), beginning on the date that is 18 months after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, a minor must not be employed in an occupation regulated by this act unless all of the following requirement…

Sec. 4b. (1) The director shall create and maintain a registration system that does both of the following: (a) Allows a minor to register for employment or a parent or legal guardian of a minor to register the minor for employment. (b) Allows an employer to register to employ min…

Sec. 4c. (1) The director shall, based on the information in the registration system, create and maintain a database of employers that are authorized to employ minors under this act. The database must meet all of the following requirements: (a) Be accessible to the public via the…

Sec. 4d. If an employer proposing to hire a minor receives notification via the registration system that the minor has registered for employment with the employer, the employer shall submit all of the following to the registration system before hiring the minor: (a) The name and …

Sec. 5. An issuing officer or the director, as applicable, shall issue a work permit on an application by the minor desiring employment and after the following papers have been examined, approved, and filed: (a) A statement of intention to employ the minor, signed by the prospect…

Sec. 6. (1) A work permit must be issued in the form prescribed by the department of education in cooperation with the department of labor and economic opportunity and in accordance with instructions so prescribed. A work permit issued to a minor under 16 years of age must clearl…

Sec. 7. (1) The issuing officer or the director, as applicable, may revoke a permit based solely on the following factors: (a) Poor school attendance, characterized by repeated erratic or unexcused absences, which results in consistent performance of school work at a level lower …

Sec. 8. The failure or refusal of the issuing officer or the director, as applicable, to issue a work permit may be appealed in accordance with the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328, by the minor who applied for the permit, the parent or gua…

Sec. 9. A work permit issued in accordance with this act shall be conclusive evidence of the age of the minor for whom issued in a proceeding involving the employment of the minor under this act.

Sec. 10. (1) A minor under 16 years of age whose employment is subject to this act may be employed only as follows: (a) During a time that is outside school hours. (b) For not more than 3 hours per day during a week when school is in session. (c) Between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9…

Sec. 11. (1) Except as provided in subsection (3), a person shall not employ a minor 16 years of age or older in an occupation subject to this act for more than any of the following periods: (a) Six days in 1 week. (b) An average of 8 hours per day in 1 week. (c) Ten hours in 1 d…

Sec. 12. A minor shall not be employed for more than 5 hours continuously without an interval of at least 30 minutes for a meal and rest period. An interval of less than 30 minutes shall not be considered to interrupt a continuous period of work.

Sec. 12a. A minor who would otherwise be permitted under this act to be employed in an occupation subject to this act shall not be employed in an occupation that involves a cash transaction subject to this act after sunset or 8 p.m., whichever is the earlier, at a fixed location …

Sec. 13. (1) Each employer shall keep posted conspicuously in or about the premises at which a minor is employed, a printed copy of sections 10, 11, and 12 as furnished by the department. (2) Each employer shall keep in or about the premises at which a minor is employed, an adequ…

Sec. 14. This act shall not prevent a minor from being employed in a performance by any performing arts organization if a letter of approval is obtained from the department of labor by the representative of the arts organization. Approval shall be issued only if the department of…

Sec. 14a. Except as provided in section 14, a minor shall not perform in or be a subject of a child abusive commercial activity as defined in section 145c of Act No. 328 of the Public Acts of 1931, being section 750.145c of the Michigan Compiled Laws.