The Legal Working Age in Louisiana

The Legal Working Age in LouisianaThe Legal Working Age in LouisianaIf youre a resident living in Louisiana and you are considering getting your first job, dont start your job search without finding out what the extremum legal working age in your state is. If you are of legal age to work in Louisiana then you can start saving for a car, college tuition, and books, clothing, or other whatever hot new app is worth downloading on iTunes. Just as important, entering the workforce will teach you valuable life skills such as teamwork, overcoming obstacles, and problem-solving. Age Restrictions and Types of Work for Louisiana Teens Both federal child labor laws and Louisiana state law agree that the minimum age to work is 14 (with some exceptions). However, child labor laws in each state sometimes vary as to the minimum age to work and which permits are needed. When this happens, federal law will be followed if its more stringent. In certain circumstances, teens younger than 14 may some times work. The minimum age to work does not include door-to-door sales (e.g., selling Girl Scout cookies), working in the agricultural field (e.g., on the family farm), and in the child entertainment industry. Teens may also be paid to work for household chores, yard work (e.g., raking leaves but not using power-driven tools), babysitting, and paper routes. So, even though teens under the age of 14 cant work in an official capacity, they have opportunities to earn money. Child labor laws also dont usually apply to children who work for their parents in a family-owned business, where they might be paid to sort and distribute the mail. Before youth begin their jobs, they should review the rules and restrictions surrounding child labor laws to know their rights and the protections the government affords them. Certificates Required for Work Louisiana state law requires child employment certificates for youth under age 18. Employment certificates are provided by the school system an d are easy to obtain. A parentand the potential employer must sign the paperwork to complete the process. The state doesnt require minors to have an age certificate by request. What Hours Can Teens Work? Although teens ages 14-15 can work in a variety of jobs (including in offices, restaurants, grocery stores, retail stores, and hospitals) the hours they work are restricted. Youth this age cant work more than three hours on a school day, 18 hours in a school week, eight hours in a non-school day or 40 hours during a non-school week. Additionally, these teens can only work between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. (except from June 1 through Labor Day when working hours extend to 9 p.m.). While older teens can work more hours and for a longer time span, 16-year-olds may not work between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. on school days, and 17-year-olds may not work between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. on school days. Teens of all ages must get a break after working for five hours straight. It is also prohibited to allow minors to work in hazardous occupations that expose them to toxic chemicals, dangerous machines, or dangerous work situations such as mines. For more information on the minimum age to work in Louisiana and how to obtain employment certificates, visit the Louisiana State Labor Website.

Richard Branson Weathered the Storm--and Lived to Enjoy It

Richard Branson Weathered the Storm--and Lived to Enjoy ItRichard Branson Weathered the Stormand Lived to Enjoy ItRichard Branson Weathered the Stormand Lived to Enjoy It FisherMother Natures wrath knows no bounds, including billionaires.Back in September, Hurricane Irma smashed everything above ground on Virgin Group founder and CEO Richard Bransons private Caribbean island. Branson was there, but no worries. He and his staff waited out the cataclysm hunkered down in a vast wine cellar, playing dice and having what his blog called a sleepover, replete with bunk beds and big fluffy pillows for all.Leadership, after all, is about being prepared.A prolific writer and brand leader,Bransons next book is likely to recount the details of rebuilding what Irma destroyed. Meanwhile his most recent tome, his seventh since Losing My Virginity in 1998, continues the tale of building the Virgin brand into a global empire of more than 400 companies with almost a million employees.Finding My Virgin ity (Portfolio, 2017) isa lively, likeable read. The book provides a few peeks into Bransons leadership style, and how hes managed his many triumphs and failures that ordinary mortals might find useful. Here are four of them.1. Admit your mistakes quickly, and move on. Ever heard of Virgin Clothing, Virgin Cola, or Virgin Vie cosmetics? How about Virgin Cars, or Virgin Vodka? No? Not surprising Those are some of the many Virgin product lines that didnt work out and were swiftly shut down.Then there were strategic goofs like Bransons belief, back in the mid-90s, that he could safely ignore social media, since upstarts like Twitter would turn out to be, he recalls, a passing fad. Oops.No matter. Failures didnt put me off, writes Branson. Generally, we like to work fast try ideas, see if they stick, and, if they dont, quickly move on to the next one.2. Listen to customers, bedrngnislage critics. In 1998, when the worldwide market for cell phones was taking off, the only providers were traditional behemoths like British Telecom. I, along with everybody else, was paying through the nose, recalls Branson. Lengthy contracts that had huge service charges became the norm. The phones had become so useful so quickly that most people just accepted they would be ripped off.Enter Virgin Mobile, with the notion that those customers deserved better. Financial analysts, journalists, and assorted other experts suggested we were spreading the Virgin brand too thinly and entering too many sectors in which we lacked expertise, Branson writes. I wasnt worried about that.Smart. By offering phone users a better, cheaper deal, Virgin Mobile became the fastest-growing start-up in British history, signing up its one millionth customer in 2001not bad, writes Branson, for a company that started as a punt only a couple of years earlier.3. Pitching an idea? Passion beats PowerPoint. To reach its (literally) stratospheric goals, fledgling space travel venture Virgin Galactic needed big inves tors. So in late 2009, Branson made an appointment with United Arab Emirates deputy prime minister Sheikh Mansour, one of the worlds richest men.Having been up late the night before fine-tuning an elaborate presentation, Branson took one look at the Sheikh and his peripherie and decided to chuck it. I was nervous, he recalls,and I knew I needed to appeal to their imaginations.Branson came away with the cash infusion he was after (about $380 million), thanks in large part to beautiful spaceship pictures and a lot of enthusiasm and belief in the project, he writes. Investors buy into people and ideas, not numbers alone. In any negotiation really, the key is to display passion, know-how, and determination, Branson adds. Dont rely too heavily on statistics, and certainly not PowerPoint slides. 4. Write everything down. I jot down ideas, thoughts, requests, reminders, and doodles every single day. If I didnt, Id forget them before I could ever put them into action, Branson recommends, ad ding, I have met one particular government minister many times who never takes notes he agrees on things and nothing happens. Another minister I know always takes notes, follows up, and gets things done.Branson expects that of his employees, too. Virgin has a note-taking culture, and Im certain it wouldnt be the success it is today without it, he writes. If somebody works for me and doesnt take notes, I ask them, Are you too important? Note-taking isnt beneath anyone.While youre recording your thoughts, consider putting some of them online. Branson and his content team write about 600 blog posts a year If you think that sounds too time-consuming, think of all the things you do that take lots of time and are not productive. Rather than slave over a spreadsheet, why not write a blog and turn your pitch into a story?Of course, unless youre an iconoclastic billionaire, your jottings might not attract the millions of fans and followers that Bransons do at virgin.com. But you might have f un. Finding My Virginity, like Sir Richards previous books, makes clear that hes a big believer in that.

James Rice to Receive the ASME Medal at the 2015 Honors Assembly

James Rice to Receive the ASME Medal at the 2015 Honors Assembly James Rice to Receive the ASME Medal at the 2015 Honors Assembly James Rice to Receive the ASME Medal at the 2015 Honors AssemblyJames R. RiceASME Fellow James R. Rice, Ph.D., is one of eight engineering innovators who will be recognized by ASME this year at the Honors Assembly, which will be held Nov. 16 during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Houston, Texas.Dr. Rice, the Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics at Harvard University, will receive the Societys highest award, the ASME Medal, during the ceremony. The medal, established in 1920, is awarded for eminently distinguished engineering achievement.Rice is being recognized for his significant contributions to the field of applied mechanics, including the J-integral method in elastic-plastic fracture mechanics, which has been broadly applied in mechanical engineering and related disciplines. His pioneeri ng concept have had a major impact on engineering practice and have led to new directions of research.A leader in the applied mechanics field for more than 50 years, Rice has been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1981. From 1965 to 1981, he was a faculty member of the Division of Engineering at Brown University. Beginning as an assistant professor at Brown, he was promoted to professor in 1970 and was named L. Herbert Ballou Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1973. During his tenure at the two universities, Rice has taught courses on a sortiment of topics including solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, fracture mechanics, computational mechanics, hydrology and environmental geomechanics, soil mechanics, earthquake source processes, mechanics in earth and environmental science, differential equations and complex variable theory.In recent years, Rices work has focused on problems in the theoretical mechanics of solids and fluids - problems of stressing, deformation, f racture and flow - as they appear in seismology, tectonophysics and surficial geologic processes, and in civil and environmental engineering hydrology and geomechanics. These research areas have included fault zone shear processes, earthquake nucleation, tsunami propagation, meltwater interactions with glacier and ice sheet dynamics, landslide processes, and general hydrologic phenomena involving fluid interactions in deformation, flow and failure of earth materials.His earlier research focused primarily on plastic deformation and cracking processes, principally in metals, as they occurred in mechanical and materials engineering, and on related computational and analytical methodology. The ASME Foundation is the proud supporter of the ASME Honors and Awards program through the management of award endowment funds set up by individuals, corporations or groups. For more information on the special events scheduled to take place at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, visit www.asmeconferences.org/Congress2015.