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child labor laws

  1. Laws passed over many decades, beginning in the 1830s, by state and federal governments, forbidding the employment of children and young teenagers, except at certain carefully specified jobs. Child labor was regularly condemned in the nineteenth century by reformers and authors ( see David Copperfieldand Oliver Twist), but many businesses insisted that the Constitution protected their liberty to hire workers of any age. In several cases in the early twentieth century, the Supreme Court agreed, declaring federal child labor laws unconstitutional. Eventually, in the late 1930s, the federal Fair Labor Standards Act was upheld by the Court. This law greatly restricts the employment of children under eighteen in manufacturing jobs.


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They accused Smith of violating California’s child labor laws, failing to compensate them and, most notably, of sexual misconduct.

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Additionally, the docuseries explains how managers of influencers have skirted child labor laws — a loophole since closed after legislation was signed last fall expanding California’s Coogan Law.

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The examples it cites, however, are matters such as child labor laws, minimum wages and occupational safety and health standards, though it also maintains that since states can bar the firing of workers for improper reasons such as race, it can bar discharges for failing to attend a mandatory meeting.

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Department of Labor found that 11 Crumbl locations violated child labor laws.

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Because Danes was only 13 when she started the show, her hours on set would have to be limited to comply with child labor laws.

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