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Frank Cerabino's column on a new Florida bill filed that would ease work restrictions on 16 and 17 year olds in the state.
ORLANDO, Fla. — A proposed Republican bill to loosen child labor laws in Florida is part of a national trend aimed at repealing or weakening workplace protections for young people that have been ...
Child labor laws in the United States address issues related to the employment and welfare of working children in the United States. The most sweeping federal law that restricts the employment and abuse of child workers is the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), which came into force during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. [1]
Farm work: Minors aged 12 or 13 may maximum work: 4 hours per day; from: 7 am to 7 pm June 21 to Labor Day/ 9 am to 4 pm Day after Labor Day to June 20; Minors aged 14 or older are unrestricted. Newspaper carriers: Minors aged 11 to 18 may maximum work: 4 Hours on school days 5 Hours on other days; from: 5 am to 7 pm or 30 minutes prior to ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A year after Florida enacted a new law making it more difficult for employers to hire immigrants in the country illegally, the House passed a bill Thursday to let 16 ...
[46] [47] Exemptions in labor laws allowing children as young as 12 to work legally on commercial farms for unlimited hours remain in place. [48] [49] One estimate by Reid Maki, coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition at the National Consumers League, put the number of children working in agriculture in 2018 at between 300,000 to 400,000 ...
Florida’s proposed change to child labor laws isn’t about kids needing to fatten their paychecks or career trajectories. This is about a labor shortage. | Opinion
Department of Labor poster notifying employees of rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 [1] (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week.