# Employment of the owner's child at a tanning salon (parental exemption) — Federal Hazardous Occupations Orders for Minors (29 CFR Part 570)

For Employment of the owner's child at a tanning salon (parental exemption), jurisdiction is North Carolina; rule is Enforcement position of the North Carolina Department of Labor Wage and Hour Bureau on tanning beds and tanning salons; regulatory text is the parental exemption applies to tanning salons so there is no age restriction for the owner, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28; source re-checked 2026-09-15.

- **occupation order:** Employment of the owner's child at a tanning salon (parental exemption) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **jurisdiction:** North Carolina _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **rule:** Enforcement position of the North Carolina Department of Labor Wage and Hour Bureau on tanning beds and tanning salons _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **regulatory text:** the parental exemption applies to tanning salons so there is no age restriction for the owner _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> It is also our enforcement position that the parental exemption applies to tanning salons so there is no age restriction for the owner's child to be employed as long as the youth's parents are the sole owners.

## Source

- https://www.labor.nc.gov/workplace-rights/youth-employment-rules/tanning-beds-youth-employment-enforcement-position

Last verified: 2026-09-15. Review by: 2027-08-28.
Part of [Federal Hazardous Occupations Orders for Minors (29 CFR Part 570)](https://referencesource.org/federal-child-labor-hazardous-occupations/).