A qualifying spouse in L-2 status is employment-authorized incident to status under current policy, shown by the notation on the arrival record. Children in dependent status may attend school but are not employment-authorized, and derivative status covers unmarried children under twenty-one.
Confirm the notation, then plan against the maximum period
Two things deserve attention. The first is administrative: check what each family member's arrival record actually says at the time of admission, since that notation is what a prospective employer will look for and correcting it later is more difficult than getting it right at the outset. The second is temporal: the managerial and executive route carries a maximum of seven years, and family decisions about schooling, housing and a spouse's career are better made against that horizon than against an initial approval period. For a family business this matters more than usual, because the assignment often has no natural end date in anyone's mind, while the classification does. Set a reminder against that date at the start of the assignment, not in its final year.
Hypothetical example: Joon is offered an executive assignment with a packaging distributor, and his sixteen-year-old hopes to take a part-time job after arriving. An opening assessment identifies each family member, the anticipated status, school plan, and income assumption. Passports, relationship documents, and the child's birth record should be gathered early. The household must decide whether the budget works without unauthorized employment by a dependant. A spouse's employment position and a child's work limits are not interchangeable, and family planning also needs the L-1A seven-year ceiling. Difficulty often appears when an assignment extension is assumed without checking how much of the maximum period has already been used.