A Florida bill that would lift certain child labor laws is making its way through the House and Senate. The bill under ...
160 million children, almost 1 in 10 worldwide, are engaged in child labor, with 80 million working in hazardous conditions in agriculture, mining, domestic labor, and other sectors. On tobacco ...
Unfortunately, child labor – legally defined as work that interferes with children’s physical and mental development and school attendance - is on the rise for the first time in two decades. In ...
the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education or a local school board,” the bill’s summary states. Currently, children under 16 are covered by Missouri’s Child Labor Law.
One of her key priorities should be taking action to end hazardous child labor. My colleagues and I have researched hazardous child labor on US farms and interviewed children working ...
The bill would do away with restrictions on 16- and 17-year-olds, who would be able to work more than eight hours a day on ...
Florida Republicans are pushing to change labor laws and allow teens as young as 14 to work overnight shifts, in an effort to ...
One state considers a workaround to child labor laws in response to job vacancies once held by undocumented immigrants.