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"New Child Labor Regs Taking Effect Monday"

This post was written by Chuck Kallendorf: "The U.S. Department of Labor has issued what it is calling "the most ambitious and far-reaching revisions to the child labor regulations in the last thirty years."

The new regulations, which take effect next Monday, July 19, 2010, make a variety of changes to how DOL will interpret the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, Thompson-West Publications says in a newly released special report.

"Perhaps the most significant among them is the lifting of a decades-old restriction that limited the industries in which 14- and 15-year-olds were permitted to work. Now, instead of being allowed to work only in retail, food service and gasoline service establishments, young workers may work in other environments such as state and local governments, banks, insurance companies, advertising agencies and information technology firms..."

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Source: Hamilton County Law Library Blog, 16 July 2010. Reproduced with permission.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on July 19, 2010 (boomark / email).