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The main law regulating child labor in the United States is the Fair Labor Standards Act.For non-agricultural jobs, children under 14 may not be employed, children between 14 and 16 may be employed in allowed occupations during limited hours, and children between 16 and 17 may be employed for unlimited hours in non-hazardous occupations. [2]
Although individual states had adopted laws starting with Massachusetts in 1844, the United States did not enact federal laws until the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed in 1938. [5] This law set minimum wages to 40 cents per hour (equivalent to $8.66 in 2023), restricted the child work week to 40 hours a week, and restricted children under ...
No more than a total of 28 hours per week is allowed. From June 1 through Labor Day, a minor may work up to eight hours per day between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m., but not more than 40 hours per week. 16: Unrestricted; Iowa Code sections §123.46A, §123.47, §123.49(2)(f) 185-4.25 Iowa Administrative Code Iowa Child Labor Law Kansas: Under 16: 16 and over:
That's later than federal law allows, so a companion measure asks the U.S. Congress to amend its own laws. Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, students that age can only work until 7 p.m ...
Fayette is the second large slaughterhouse cleaner found by the Labor Department to have employed children. In 2023, the Labor Department found the national company Packers Sanitation Services Inc ...
Curtiss, Davin C. "The fair labor standards act and child labor in agriculture." Journal of Corporation Law 20 (1994): 303+. Fasick, Frank A. "Educational retardation among children of migratory agricultural workers." Rural Sociology 32.4 (1967): 399. "State child labor laws applicable to agricultural employment". Wage and hour division.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which is the cornerstone law of U.S. child labor protection, was originally enacted in 1938 to address the widespread abuse and injury suffered by industrial working children. [3] At the time, family farmwork was common, and so the bill carved out lighter standards for kids working in agriculture. [3]
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