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Policies for states and localities to fight oppressive child labor


Policies for states and localities to fight oppressive child labor

This report reviews the enforcement provisions of current state-level child labor laws throughout the United States, and identifies a number of potential state ...

Child Labor | Economic Policy Institute

The Economic Policy Institute's child labor research examines the role of strong labor standards in ensuring equal economic and educational opportunity for all ...

State policy approaches to combat oppressive child labor

Or impose strict liability if repeat or widespread/multiple locations. ©2023 All Rights Reserved. Page 23. Laws/policies that could help. 3/27 ...

How States Can Stop the Corporate Campaign To Roll Back Child ...

Lawmakers can ensure that children have appropriate legal remedies when they are harmed by child labor violations by ensuring that injured or ...

CLASP Federal Recommendations to Combat Child Labor

This bill would combat child labor by preventing the U.S. government from signing contracts with companies that violated child labor laws or ...

Tougher policies can end illegal child labor practices in US

Policymakers can help combat rising child labor violations in the US by toughening penalties and increasing funding for enforcement, a recent report says.

Recent Federal and State Legislation to Amend Child Labor Laws

Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) in 1938 to improve the “general well-being of workers” in part by prohibiting the ...

The Campaign to End US Child Labor

The creation of strong legislation to hold corporations to account for child labor law violations, and for corporations to fund mechanisms to eradicate child ...

Fact Sheet #43: Child Labor Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards ...

The youth employment provisions of the FLSA were enacted to ensure that when young people work, the work does not jeopardize their health, well-being or ...

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 ...

29 CFR § 779.505 - “Oppressive child labor” defined.

... place of a parent employing his own child or a child in his custody under the age of 16 years in an occupation other than manufacturing or mining or an ...

Report urges states to step into the gap, step up enforcement of child ...

The report, “Policies for states and localities to fight oppressive child labor,” is a joint project of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), in ...

Stop Child Labor – The Child Labor Coalition – the Website of the ...

Here at the National Consumers League we are very proud that we've been a leader in the fight to end child labor since our founding in 1899. Thrity one years ...

We Need a Federal Young Workers' Bill of Rights - Georgetown Law

State legislatures across the country are paving the way for these increases in child labor violations with new laws pushed by industry groups ...

There is More Work to Be Done to Eliminate Oppressive Child Labor

The fact that the Child Labor Amendment (CLA) has not been ratified by enough states illustrates the challenges commonly faced when government ...

Statement for the Record - Child Labor - AFL-CIO

State legislators attempt to justify rollbacks in long-standing protections by claiming that employers cannot find workers, often in the most ...

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

A movement to weaken American child labor protections at the state level began in 2022. By June 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Jersey and New ...

Child Labor Bulletin 102

101 (WH1330) for information regarding the employment of minors in nonagricultural occupations. Other Child Labor Laws. Other federal and state laws may have ...

Child Labor in America: History, Policy, and Legislative Issues

The regulation of child labor generally began at the state level. Initial laws were often loosely drawn and, where they exerted a restraining influence, subject ...

LiMitiNg Child Labor: ProvidiNg for the GeNeral Welfare

What laws were in place already? By the time the Keating–Owen Act was proposed, some states had already passed legislation that regulated child labor in ...