Recent Federal and State Legislation to Amend Child Labor Laws

Multiple bills have been introduced in Congress in 2023 to amend child labor provisions in the FLSA. This article will introduce a few of the bills proposed ...

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 ...

More states have strengthened child labor laws than weakened ...

Click here for the latest version of our 50-state maps showing the status of legislation to roll back or strengthen child labor protections.

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

Proponents have insisted that the bill won't affect child labor violations because businesses will still be required to comply with state and ...

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.

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

Establishing a subminimum wage. Federal law allows employers to pay young workers and students subminimum wages and excludes occupations often ...

Info - S.637 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Child Labor Prevention Act

A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to apply child labor laws to independent contractors, increase penalties for child labor law violations, ...

Changes to state child labor laws | Safety+Health

Lawmakers in several states are proposing – or have recently enacted – legislation aimed at changing child labor laws to allow teens to work longer, later and ...

What's Driving the Changes to Child Labor Laws?

Last week, the Kentucky House passed a billthat would abolish the state's child labor laws, in effect replacing them with looser federal ...

Selected State Child Labor Standards Affecting Minors Under 18 in ...

212(c), and its implementing regulations at 29 CFR Part 570. Where a state child labor law is less restrictive than the federal law, the federal law applies.

The Persistent Issue of Child Labor in 2024 - BillTrack50

The introduction of HB255 in the Kentucky General Assembly marks a recent move in a growing trend by states to amend child labor laws. This ...

CLASP Federal Recommendations to Combat Child Labor

The Department of Labor (DOL) found that child labor violations increased in 2023: 5,800 children were employed in violation of labor law, an ...

The Forgotten History of the Child Labor Amendment | TIME

In 2022 and 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Hampshire, and New Jersey passed laws weakening protections for child workers. At least eight other states ...

Child Labor Laws and Young Workers | U.S. Department of Labor

The rules vary by age and task. Some state child labor laws are inconsistent with the federal child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The Child Labor Amendment

In the 1930s, the proposals were tied to the success of federal child labor legislation at the time and the understanding of the legal status of the CLA at the ...

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

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

New State Laws Are Rolling Back Regulations On Child Labor - NPR

Lawmakers in Republican-led states are proposing and passing legislation to roll back child labor regulations.In states like Iowa, Missouri, ...

Youth Employment - Missouri Department of Labor

See 29 U.S.C.218(a). For more information on federal child labor law, please visit the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division Website at www.

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 ...

Why are states turning back the clock on child labor laws?

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