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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]
Perdue Farms' $4 million in restitution will be distributed to impacted children, along with organizations advocating for child labor victims and to support work to prevent future exploitation ...
The World Day Against Child Labour is an International Labour Organization (ILO)-sanctioned holiday first launched in 2002 [1] aiming to raise awareness and activism to prevent child labour. It was spurred by ratifications of ILO Convention No. 138 [2] on the minimum age for employment and ILO Convention No. 182 [3] on the worst forms of child ...
The organization also monitors and evaluates public and private sector, non-government organizations, organizational research, and development institutions to eliminate child labor. [21] The Child Labor Coalition was founded in 1989. The Child Labor Coalition uses its Stop Child Labor campaign to promote the education and well-being of working ...
Tyler, John H. "Using state child labor laws to identify the effect of school-year work on high school achievement." Journal of Labor Economics 21.2 (2003): 381–408. Walker, Roger W. "The AFL and child-labor legislation: An exercise in frustration." Labor History 11.3 (1970): 323–340. Walters, Pamela Barnhouse, and Carl M. Briggs.
The elimination of child labour was one of the main goals of the ILO. According to the UN agency, 152 million children worldwide are affected by the convention, almost half of which do dangerous work. Most child labour is carried out in the agricultural sector, mainly due to poverty and the difficulties faced by parents.
The Labor Department’s decision, they argue, contradicts the principles of collective bargaining, a cornerstone of labor rights, by imposing a rigid one-size-fits-all policy.
The ILO Convention Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment C138, [1] is a convention adopted in 1973 by the International Labour Organization.It requires ratifying states to pursue a national policy designed to ensure the effective abolition of child labour and to raise progressively the minimum age for admission to employment or work.