Work Permits

If you're under age 16, you'll need a work permit to be employed. 

Follow these steps to obtain your work permit:

1. In order to apply for a permit, you must already have secured the promise of a job (interviewing or putting in applications is not enough, the employer wants to hire you).

2. Contact Karen Wolfe at 505 866-8236 to make an appointment. (During summer breaks, a work permit can be oftained at the Department of Workforce Solutions in Los Lunas.

3. At the appointment, you and your parent or guardian presents your birth certificate and you complete the form.

4. You take the form to your the employer who wants to hire you to complete the form stating hours and duties.

5. You bring the form back to Ms. Wolfe and she signs it. She gives you a copy and send one to the state.

6. Your copy of the signed form goes to your employer to post. That is when you're cleared to begin working (not one minute before).

Work permits need to renewed when:

• a year passes

• you change jobs

After your 16th birthday, you'll no longer need a work permit.