Lawmakers in 11 states seek to weaken child labor restrictions

Lawmakers in at least 11 states have sought to loosen child labor laws to help employers fill empty jobs.

Child labor remains a key state legislative issue in 2024

Since 2021, 28 states have introduced bills to weaken child labor laws, and 12 states have enacted them. By contrast, 14 states have introduced ...

Child labor laws are under attack in states across the country

At the state level, lawmakers should eliminate subminimum wages for youth and raise the minimum wage, eliminate the two-tiered system that fails ...

Some lawmakers propose loosening child labor laws to fill worker ...

In at least 10 states, legislators have proposed letting children work longer hours and in more hazardous occupations as a fix for labor ...

The Republican push to weaken child labor laws, explained - Vox

Wisconsin is not the only state looking to loosen labor laws affecting minors, and over the last few months there have been been Republican-led ...

What's Driving the Changes to Child Labor Laws?

A number of red states are moving to weaken child labor laws. Sponsors say they just want kids to be able to work, but critics complain ...

Republicans continue effort to erode US child labor rules despite ...

At the state level, labor departments also saw sharp increases in child labor violations last year. A record number of employers were cited for ...

States are weakening child labor laws, 8 decades after the feds took ...

By June 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Jersey and New Hampshire had enacted this kind of legislation, and lawmakers in at least another eight states ...

Kids at work: States try to ease child labor laws at behest of industry

Lawmakers in 11 states have either passed or introduced laws to roll back child labor ... weaken the child labor laws,'” said Reid Maki ...

How are Child Labor Laws Changing? - Barrett & Farahany

Seven states, including Alabama, Colorado, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, and Virginia, have taken steps to enhance child labor protections.

A huge step backward as states weaken child labor protections

This year, the Best States to Work Index charts a new way that states are actively moving BACKWARD: by weakening restrictions on child labor ...

Why several states are pushing to loosen child labor restrictions - PBS

The U.S. government found child labor violations involving over 3800 minors in 2022. At the same time, some states say there is too much ...

States Are Loosening Child Labor Laws - U.S. News & World Report

Led largely by Republicans, efforts are underway to weaken child labor restrictions decades after the US government took kids out of the workforce.

Steep fines in Iowa set off state-federal showdown over child labor ...

Lawmakers in multiple states have sought to roll back long-standing child labor law protections as employers struggle to fill open jobs.

Child labor laws being rolled back in multiple states - NewsNation

3,800 minors were employed in violation of federal child labor laws in 2022 · Support: This is a good thing, keeping kids off the streets and ...

'It's just crazy': Republicans attack US child labor laws as violations ...

As child labor law violations have been on the rise in the US, some state legislators are pushing for changes at state and federal levels to ...

America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws

At least 16 states have one or more bills that would weaken their child labor laws and at least 13 are seeking to strengthen them.

Florida Republican introduces bill weakening child labor laws

It would make Florida the latest state to pass major legislation weakening child labor laws after Arkansas, Iowa, New Jersey and New Hampshire.

Child labor bill passed by Iowa Legislature appears to violate ...

It's among 14 bills in states around the U.S. that weaken child labor protections ... This is also the case with employment laws for 20 other U.S. ...

Missouri bill would loosen child labor law by removing work permit ...

“We need to be careful because at the same time that [some states are] doing this, weakening restrictions, we're seeing an increase in child ...