job age

[michaelish]

how hold do you have to be to have a job, thats not a paper round. I think you can be 15 to work at sainsburys but not sure?

[Plank]

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/life/employment/young_people_and_employment.htm#whatyoucando

Everything you need there.

Edit:

What work can you do

16 – 18 year olds

If you are over school leaving age (see under heading General rules on employment) and under 18, there are special restrictions on doing certain types of work. These are:

• work which you are not physically or mentally capable of doing
• work which brings you into contact with chemical agents, toxic material or radiation
• work which involves a health risk because of extreme cold, heat or vibration.

You are only allowed to do the work above under the following circumstances:

• where it is necessary for your training, and
• where an experienced person is supervising you, and
• where any risk is reduced to the lowest level that is reasonable.

These rules do not apply if you are doing short term or occasional work in a family business or in a private household, and this is not considered to be harmful to you.
Children and young people under school leaving age (England and Wales only)

No one under school leaving age (see under heading General rules on employment) can be employed in work other than light work. You are not allowed to do work which is likely to be harmful to your safety, health, development, or work that will affect your attendance at school or participation in work experience. You are not allowed to work:-

• in a factory or in construction work
• in transport
• in a mine
• on a registered merchant ship.

The local authority where you live may also have some extra rules, called by-laws, about the employment of children and young people in your area. You should check with your local authority if you want to find out what these are. By-laws authorising children and young people to work in street trading must say which days, which hours, and the places where, they may work.
Employers who want to employ children or young people under school leaving age are required to get a permit from their local authority. The permit must be signed by both the employer and one of your parents.
There are some extra rules about the employment of children under 14. If you are under 14, you are not allowed to work at all except in the following types of work:-

• to take part in sport, advertising, modelling, plays, films, television or other entertainment. The employer must apply for a licence from the local authority
• to do odd jobs for a parent, relative or neighbour
• to do babysitting – see under heading Babysitting.

However, children of 13 or above may be able to do some other types of work, depending on the by-laws of the local authority in their area. For example, the by-laws may say that children of 13 and above in your area can do a paper-round, or that you can do light work which is not likely to be harmful to your health, safety or development.

[Yoshimitsui]

Alot of jobs will have a minumum of 16 if it's nothing that requires alot of experience, qualifications! But ou can get alot under that age.

[Plank]

Regarding Sainsburys:

All applicants must be of compulsory School Leaving Age, this is deemed in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as “a person is no longer of compulsory school age after the last Friday of June of the school year in which their sixteenth birthday occurs”. In Scotland it is defined as “a person whose sixteenth birthday falls between 1st March and 30th September is of compulsory school age up until 31st May that year. Pupils aged sixteen on or between 1st October and the last day of February are still of compulsory school age until the start of the Christmas holidays in that school year.”

Although I know several people who got a job there at the age of 15.

[Fehm]

I think it should be 15 to get a job at tesco's, cause, i'd like to start earning myself some cash ^^ Lol.. And i gotta wait one more year!!!

[Charly]

You can be any age depends who you work with X]

[BlueTango]

My school employs students part time:

2 hours every schoolday after school
5 pounds an hour
10 hours a week

For ANYONE over 13

[Sammeth.]

In my local Sainsbury's there are a lot of 15 year olds. From what they have said they were allowed to work because they had their National Insurance card (so they were only a few months away from 16). Big companies won't employ you if you don't have an NI Number/card.

[Corporal]

It all depnds where you are from.
Your local authroity will decide what and when you are allowed to work.

[Imp!]

i got a job when i was 14 and still have it and I love it!