With all the wrangling you do in production, it’s easy to feel like the paperwork for onboarding and paying new personnel is unimportant. You don’t have time to think about it, and it seems like it has nothing to do with your actual work. However, getting your employees onboarded and paid on time is extremely important for moral, practical, and legal reasons.

Today, we are digging a bit deeper with some more specific questions about working with minors. Many people turn to us for answers about the ins and outs of working with minors and we are more than happy to oblige. Understanding the minutiae of child labor laws takes focus and detail, but is all in service of safe and comfortable children.

Working with minors can be delightful, but it has to be done properly, not just because there are a great many laws that say so, but because these laws are designed to ensure that children in the workforce are safe and protected. There are a lot of rules and many of them have age-specific mandates.

Although it can be a cumbersome process to fill out and manage onboarding paperwork (particularly when juggling the tight timelines of production!), doing it right benefits both the employer and the employee.