Child labor laws in the United States address issues related to the employment and welfare of working children in the United States. The most sweeping...
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Child labor in the United States was a common phenomenon across the economy in the 19th century. Outside agriculture, it gradually declined in the early...
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United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the US. Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality...
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The Child Labor Amendment (CLA) is a proposed and still-pending amendment to the United States Constitution that would specifically authorize Congress...
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In the United States, a child marriage is a marriage in which at least one party is under 18 years of age—or the age of majority. The U.S. is the only...
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Europe had child labor laws in place by 1890. Although individual states had adopted laws starting with Massachusetts in 1844, the United States did not...
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[citation needed] Child labour laws in the United States are found at the federal and state levels. The most sweeping federal law that restricts the employment...
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Lewis Hine (category Child labor in the United States)
photographs were instrumental in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States. Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on September...
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media under existing laws. The United States ambassador to Japan has stated that Japan's lack of laws restricting possession of child pornography has impeded...
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History of labor law in the United States refers to the development of United States labor law, or legal relations between workers, their employers and...
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Child pornography is illegal in most countries, but there is substantial variation in definitions, categories, penalties, and interpretations of laws...
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Labor unions represent United States workers in many industries recognized under US labor law since the 1935 enactment of the National Labor Relations...
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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half"...
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The nature and power of organized labor in the United States is the outcome of historical tensions among counter-acting forces involving workplace rights...
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Penal labor in the United States is the practice of using incarcerated individuals to perform various types of work, either for government-run or private...
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leave (also known as family leave) is regulated in the United States by US labor law and state law. The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) requires...
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civilians in September 2024. In February 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, there were 164.6 million civilians in the labor force...
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In the United States, many U.S. states historically had anti-miscegenation laws which prohibited interracial marriage and, in some states, interracial...
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to demand the end of all homework assignments, and thousands of parents did so. Others looked at the new child labor laws in the United States and noted...
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The National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) was a private, non-profit organization in the United States that served as a leading proponent for the national...
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The United States has inherited sodomy laws which constitutionally outlawed a variety of sexual acts that are deemed to be illegal, illicit, unlawful...
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Newspaper hawker (category Child labor in the United States)
and not employees, so they generally were not subject to child labor laws. In the United States they became an iconic image of youthful entrepreneurship...
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In the United States, child support is the ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made directly or indirectly by an "obligor" (or paying parent or payer)...
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The United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) generally considers matters relating to these issues. Its jurisdiction...
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Act 2012 According to the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT) United States Department of Labor: In 2011, Bangladesh made...
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Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (category History of labor relations in the United States)
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) is a United States labor law requiring covered employers to provide employees with job-protected, unpaid...
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custody laws in the United States Child labor laws in the United States Child pornography laws in the United States Child sexual abuse laws in the United States...
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The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state...
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Labour laws (also spelled as labor laws), labour code or employment laws are those that mediate the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade...
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In the United States, each state and territory sets the age of consent either by statute or the common law applies, and there are several federal statutes...
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