ARCHIVE: From the PNA Legal Hotline

Youth Concerns

• January 3, 2008
  I’d like to hire a promising journalist who is still a student in high school. She is 18 but has not graduated yet. Do I need to get her parents to co-sign her employment contract?
• September 28, 2006
  When can a reporter or a member of the public access juvenile law enforcement records?
• August 24, 2006
  We are considering using minors to solicit newspaper subscriptions door to door. Are there any Pennsylvania laws relating to youth “crewing”?
• April 22, 2005
  Is school-related statistical information relating to school violence and drug use a matter of public record? ?
• January 23, 2004
  What hours can a youth carrier work under Pennsylvania Law? 
  Didn’t I hear that the General Assembly was considering making changes to the child labor law?