Medical examination of children for fitness for employment.
Section 4
SEC. 4. Medical examination of children for fitness for employment.- a. No person below eighteen years of age shall be admitted to employment in any shop, factory, commercial, industrial or agricultural establishment or other place of labor unless he shall have been found fit for the work on which he is to be employed by a thorough medical examination conducted without cost to such person by a qualified Government physician or by any other qualified physician approved by the Secretary of Labor. The fitness for employment shall be evidenced by a certificate of the examining physician, which may be issued- 1. subject to specified conditions of employment; or 2. for a specified employment or group of employments involving similar risks. b. It shall be the duty of every employer of a person under eighteen years of age to have such person medically examined at least every six months or oftener, as the Secretary of Labor may require in exceptional cases involving high health risks, to determine the continued fitness of such person for employment. Such examination shall be without cost to the employee. c. The Secretary of Labor shall have the power, in case of occupations involving high health risks, to require medical examination and re-examination for fitness for employment until the age of twenty-one years. d. The Secretary of Labor shall refer to the appropriate authorities for vocational guidance and physical and vocational rehabilitation the cases of children found by medical examination to require such service.