PROHIBITED JOBS
DURING YOUR SUMMER WORK TRAVEL PROGRAM
What jobs are not allowed?
- Positions that could bring notoriety or disrepute to the Exchange Visitor Program
- Sales positions that require participants to purchase inventory that they must sell in order to support themselves
- Domestic help positions in private homes (e.g., child care, elder care, gardener, chauffeur);
- Pedicab or rolling chair drivers or operators
- Operators or drivers of vehicles or vessels for which drivers’ licenses are required regardless of whether they carry passengers or not
- Positions related to clinical care that involves patient contact
- Positions in the adult entertainment industry (including, but not limited to jobs with escort services, adult book/video stores, and strip clubs)
- Positions requiring work hours that fall predominantly between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
- Positions declared hazardous to youth by the Secretary of Labor at Subpart E of 29 CFR part 570
- Positions that require sustained physical contact with other people and/or adherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Universal Blood and Body Fluid Precautions guidelines (e.g., body piercing, tattooing, massage, manicure)
- Positions that are substantially commission-based and thus do not guarantee that participants will be paid minimum wage in accordance with federal and state standards
- Positions involved in gaming and that include direct participation in wagering and/or betting;
- Positions in chemical pest control, warehousing, catalogue/online order distribution centers
- Positions with traveling fairs or itinerant concessionaires
- Positions for which there is another specific J category (e.g., camp counselor, intern, trainee); or
After November 1, 2012, in positions in the North American Industry Classification System’s (NAICS) Goods-Producing Industries occupational categories industry sectors 11, 21, 23, 31-33 numbers (set forth at http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag_index_naics.htm)