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Staff Handbook

3. General Employment Policies
  
3.3   Age Requirements

(U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act; Age Discrimination in Employment Act; AHRMS Policy Manual, 125, 109; Arkansas Code Annotated §11-6-110 et seq.)

The minimum age for employment in most University positions is sixteen years. However, applicants younger than sixteen with a valid work permit may be employed. Employees who hold hazardous jobs must be eighteen years of age or older. No one under the age of 18 may work more than six days in any week, more than 54 hours in any week, more than ten hours in a 24-hour period or before 6:00 am or after 11:00 pm. Public safety officers must be age twenty-one or older. There is no maximum age for employment and no mandatory retirement age.

3.3 Updated 8/15/2006