{"id":717,"date":"2001-01-22T02:09:10","date_gmt":"2001-01-22T02:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/career-advice\/?p=717"},"modified":"2019-11-12T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T04:47:00","slug":"employing-young-people-under-15-in-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/employing-young-people-under-15-in-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Employing Young People Under 15 in BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Before employing anyone under 15 years of age, an employer must have written consent from the employee&#8217;s parent or guardian.<\/li>\n<li>If the employee is under 12, the employer must also have permission from the Director of Employment Standards before work begins.<\/li>\n<li>See the factsheets <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/employment-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General Employment for Young People<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Employment of Young People in the B.C. Entertainment Industry<\/a> for information on the additional employment conditions for young employees.<\/li>\n<li>The Director of Employment Standards does not issue child employment permits for children employed in the entertainment industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labour.gov.bc.ca\/esb\/esaguide\/#2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.labour.gov.bc.ca\/esb\/esaguide\/#2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before employing anyone under 15 years of age, an employer must have written consent from the employee&#8217;s parent or guardian. If the employee is under 12, the employer must also have permission from the Director of Employment Standards before work begins. See the factsheets General Employment for Young People and Employment of Young People in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163,149],"tags":[153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7084,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/7084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}