Can I work without my parents permission at fifteen?
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However, some of the provisions below specify things like ages, hours, places allowed to work, work during school year and other provisions.
Section 25-8-33
Persons under 16 years of age prohibited from working; exceptions; evidence of employment.
No person under 16 years of age shall be employed, except in agricultural service, and except as otherwise provided in this chapter. Any person 14 or 15 years of age may be employed outside school hours and during school vacation periods, so long as the person is not employed in, about, or in connection with, any manufacturing or mechanical establishment, cannery, mill, workshop, warehouse, or machine shop or in any occupation or place of employment otherwise prohibited by law. The presence of any person under 18 years of age in any restricted business establishment or restricted occupation shall be prima facie evidence of his or her employment therein.
Section 25-8-37
Employment during schools hours; employment of persons 14 or 15 years of age upon waiver of school attendance.
(a) No person under 16 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in any occupation during the hours in which the public schools of the district in which the person resides are in session, unless the minor has completed the course of study required for secondary schools. Persons 14 or 15 years of age, when school attendance has been waived, upon recommendation of the local superintendent of education and approval by a child labor inspector, may be permitted to work in a nonhazardous occupation.
(b) Employment authorized by this section shall not be for more than eight hours in any one day, or for more than 40 hours in any one week, or for more than six days in any one week, and not before 7:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m.
Section 25-8-36
Time restrictions.
(a) No person 14 or 15 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in any gainful occupation for more than six days in any one week, or for more than 40 hours in any one week, or for more than eight hours in any one day, or before 7:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. during school summer vacation. During the time school is in regular session, no person 14 or 15 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in any gainful occupation for more than six days in any one week, or for more than eight hours on a non-school day, or more than three hours on a school day, or for more than 18 hours in any school week, and not before 7:00 a.m. or after 7:00 p.m.
(b) No person 16, 17, or 18 years of age, who is enrolled in any public or private primary or secondary school system, shall work between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. on any night preceding a school day. The appropriate county or city superintendent of schools, or where there is no superintendent, the school headmaster, may grant exemptions to the above time restrictions. Exemptions shall be granted only when the individual circumstances are found to be in the best interests of the minor. Information of any exemptions granted shall be transmitted to a child labor inspector on a form authorized by him or her.
Section 25-8-35
Prohibited occupations and places for persons under 16 years of age.
No person under 16 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work at any of the following occupations, positions, or places:
(1) Operating or assisting in operating any sandpaper or wood polishing machinery, any washing, grinding, or mixing machinery, or commercial laundry equipment.
(2) Operating or assisting in operating any machines used in picking wool, cotton, hair, or any other material.
(3) In any work in or about a rolling mill, machine shop, or manufacturing establishment which is hazardous or dangerous to health, limb, or life.
(4) In proximity to any hazardous or unguarded gearing.
(5) Upon any vessel or boat engaged in navigation or commerce within the jurisdiction of this state.
(6) In the manufacture or packing of paints, colors, or white or red lead.
(7) In occupations causing dust in injurious quantities.
(8) In soldering, brazing, heat treating, or welding.
(9) In the building trades, except that persons 14 or 15 years of age who are members of the immediate family of the contractor may be employed in trades involving nonhazardous duties or occupations.
(10) Repairing, painting, or cleaning buildings or structures while working at the top of ladders, lifts, or scaffolds exceeding a height of six feet.
(11) In connection with a junk or scrap metal yard.
(12) Assorting, manufacturing, or packing tobacco.
(13) Operating any automobile, truck, or motor vehicle, or flagging or directing traffic.
(14) In airport hangars or landing strips or taxi and maintenance aprons.
(15) In connection with any lumberyard.
(16) In any place or occupation which the department declares dangerous to life or limb or injurious to the health or morals of persons under 16 years of age.
(17) Selling of fireworks, unless under the direct supervision of an individual at least 18 years of age.
For the Alabama Statutes dealing with child labor see http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/codeofalabama/1975/coatoc.htm
The Alabama Department of Labor may also have adopted regulations authorized by Statue that may be applicable. You can contact the Department of Labor for details.