My girlfriend is 16 and will be 17 in July, I am 18. She is currently working in a wine bar that is also a restaurant. She serves alcohol but doesn't sell it, she collects glasses and crockery and serves food. She starts work at 7pm on a Friday night and most Fridays she doesn't get home until gone 1am in the morning. I'm sure this is NOT legal so could someone please confirm to me how late she can work till now and if the law changes when she turns 17 and also what she can do to stop this if it is illegal. Please someone answer this I will be So grateful! Thanks in advance.
2007-05-25 13:45:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
For the UK
Section 153 - Prohibition of unsupervised sales by children
242. This section re-enacts provisions in the Licensing Act 1964 so that it is an offence knowingly to allow an individual under the age of 18 to sell or, in the case of a club, to supply alcohol unless each such sale or supply has been specifically approved. Subsection (4) sets out the categories of person who may commit this offence. These are
a premises licence holder, designated premises supervisor or someone over 18 authorised by them, or
in the case of a club, any member of officer of the club who is present on the premises in a capacity that enables him to prevent the supply, or
in a case where the premises are used for a temporary permitted activity, the premises user or a person over 18 authorised by him.
Subsection (2) provides that the offence in this section is not committed where the alcohol is sold for consumption with a table meal in a part of the premises used only for this purpose. The effect of this exception is that, for example, a minor will be able to serve alcohol in a restaurant.
As for the times of work I am unsure of this.
I have just done some checking, your girlfriend is counted as a child if she is sixteen or under, so I believe it is illegal for her to be working this late.
2007-05-25 14:34:50 · answer #1 · answered by David 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last I checked it is illegal for anyone under 21 to buy or SELL alcohol. I don't know how serving alcohol does not count as selling alcohol. That said, if she can legally work in the bar at all, I doubt the rules about hours are any different than any other job she could have. Are you sure she is actually working late on Fridays and not just coming home late?
2007-05-25 22:01:43 · answer #2 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Young workers aged 16 and 17 may not ordinarily work more than 8 hours a day or 40 hours per week under the Working Time Regulations, nor at night between 10pm-6am or 11pm to 7am.
2007-05-26 04:25:30 · answer #3 · answered by champer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Goto www.dol.gov for the department of labor of the US. It lays out the rules for minors working, and this is illegal under those rules, also your state can have rules that are MORE, BUT NOT LESS restrictive then the federal ones. The DOL will provide you information on this, and/or where to find it.
2007-05-25 20:50:54 · answer #4 · answered by caffeyw 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very illegal, 10.30 pm is the latest she can work, also she is still under age to carry alcohol, get her out, keep her safe, there are better jobs than that out there, all the best
2007-05-25 22:59:52 · answer #5 · answered by sarah1962 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10:00p.m in ohio
2007-05-25 20:49:47 · answer #6 · answered by glamour04111 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont be so fcuking clingy
leave her
maybe she thinks ur a dickhea d n want5rs to leave u
get over it
ps. im NOT drunk
2007-05-25 21:10:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋