Lunch period for minors under 18

N.J. Stat. § 34:2-21.4
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4. No minor under eighteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work for more than six hours continuously without an interval of at least thirty minutes for a lunch period, and no period of less than thirty minutes shall be deemed to interrupt a continuous period of work. L.1940, c. 153, p. 334, s. 4; amended 2022, c.63, s.4.
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