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Section 1.The Congress shall have the power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age. Section 2.The power of the several States is unimpaired by this article except that the operation of State laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the Congress.
Jason M. Schultz (born November 27, 1972) is the Iowa State Senator from the 6th District - previously Iowa's 9th District (2015-2023). A Republican, he served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015 and is an advocate for the loosening of child labor laws.
The committee's name was changed during the 80th Congress to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare as part of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (Public Law 79-601). The act further expanded the committee's oversight to include the rehabilitation, health, and education of veterans.
In the latest chapter of the child labor abuse across the U.S., federal officials on Wednesday alleged a janitorial service hired as many as nine teenagers to clean a pork slaughterhouse in Sioux ...
Th U.S. Labor Department on Friday announce d that Oklahoma’s Qvest LLC must pay nearly $172,000 in civil money penalties, after the government accused the sanitation company of violating the ...
A special election to fill the remainder of the term is then held concurrently with that regular state election, which in this case would be the one on November 3, 2026. [2] [3] Governor Mike DeWine chose Jon Husted to replace Vance in the Senate. This will be the first U.S. Senate special election in Ohio since the one to this seat in 1954.
In the wake of federal probes and NBC News stories about children cleaning slaughterhouses, two senators sent letters to 27 CEOs demanding responses about their companies' compliance with child ...
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which is the cornerstone law of U.S. child labor protection, was originally enacted in 1938 to address the widespread abuse and injury suffered by industrial working children.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]