Illinois has enacted the Child Labor Law of 2024, which enhances restrictions on the employment of minors in the state, and creates new employer obligations. The new law includes civil and criminal ...

State Republican leaders are asking the U.S. Department of Labor to reassess fines levied against some Iowa businesses for federal child labor violations. JUST A LITTLE BIT, BEN. OKAY. AND THANK YOU.

A part-time employee works on an order in the kitchen at a Wendy’s restaurant in California. In recent years, many states, grappling with tough labor markets, have sought to loosen some child labor ...

Trump’s gutting of workplace safety enforcement comes as many states have rolled back their own efforts. That puts young workers at risk.

(The Center Square) - A new law introduced by a California congressman would raise the minimum legal age of child workers in agriculture from 12 to 17. The bill would update the original 1938 law ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As more states enact legislation allowing teens to serve alcohol, labor organizers and legal experts worry about sexual harassment ...

As Indiana’s part-time legislature returned to the Statehouse in January, a new law allowed another group of Hoosiers to spend more time in the workforce. Those workers are teens, some as young as 14, ...