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A 15-year-old in Tupelo gets hired to run the register at a snowball stand after school. Her mother asks a fair question: what does Mississippi law say about her hours and her pay? The honest answer is that Mississippi says less than most states. Its own hour limits are written for factories and similar workplaces, and it has no state minimum wage. For a job like hers, federal law sets the rules, and they are real rules with a real agency behind them.
What Mississippi's own law covers
The U.S. Department of Labor keeps a table of state child labor standards. For Mississippi, the limits it lists for workers under 16 apply in a factory, mill, cannery, workshop, or manufacturing establishment: no more than 8 hours a day and 44 hours a week, and no work between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. The table lists no separate Mississippi hour limits for 16- and 17-year-olds.
So a 14-year-old in a Jackson office or a 15-year-old at a Tupelo snowball stand is not covered by those state numbers. That does not leave them unprotected. It means the federal rules are the ones to read.
The federal hours for 14- and 15-year-olds
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the main federal law on wages and child labor, limits 14- and 15-year-olds to work outside school hours only: no more than 3 hours on a school day, Fridays included, and 18 hours in a school week. On a non-school day the limit is 8 hours, and in a non-school week it is 40. Work must fall between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., except from June 1 through Labor Day, when the evening limit moves to 9 p.m.
At 16, the federal hour limits end. A 16- or 17-year-old may work unlimited hours in any job the Secretary of Labor has not declared hazardous. When both a state rule and a federal rule apply, the stricter one wins.
The federal government has not always had this power. In Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918), the Supreme Court said Congress could not keep goods made by child workers out of interstate trade. In United States v. Darby (1941), the Court upheld the FLSA and overruled Hammer, so the federal limits in this section stand on that decision.
Pay: the federal $7.25
Mississippi has no state minimum wage law. The Department of Labor says employers covered by the FLSA must pay the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour. That number is the floor for most teen jobs in the state, from Hattiesburg to the Coast.
Keep your own record of the days and hours you work. A notebook or a phone note is enough, and it matters if a paycheck ever looks short.
Where to call in Mississippi
Because federal law sets most of the rules here, the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division is the office to contact about hours, missing pay, or a job that seems unsafe. Its toll-free number is 1-866-487-9243 (1-866-4-US-WAGE). A parent, teacher, or you can call.
We could not confirm on an official page whether Mississippi requires a state work permit or age certificate for most jobs. Ask your employer what proof of age it keeps on file, and ask the Wage and Hour Division if the answer seems off.
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- Mississippi's own hour limits for under-16 workers apply in factories, mills, canneries, workshops, and manufacturing: 8 hours a day, 44 a week, nothing from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.
- For most other jobs, federal law limits 14- and 15-year-olds to 3 hours on a school day and 18 hours in a school week.
- Mississippi has no state minimum wage, so covered employers must pay the federal $7.25 an hour.
- Problems with hours or pay go to the federal Wage and Hour Division at 1-866-487-9243.
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