Child labor violations have increased significantly in Minnesota — and across the country — in recent years as a tight labor ...

After loosening child labor laws and penalizing businesses that hired undocumented immigrants, Florida seeks to lift all work ...

In late March 2025, claims ( archived) circulated online that the state of Florida was debating lifting some child labor laws ...

Florida SB 918 is the latest bill lawmakers have put forward targeting child labor laws in the state. If passed, it would ...

A new law under consideration in the state Legislature would roll back child labor laws to make up for a dwindling labor pool.

U.S. President Donald Trump has plans to immediately end U.S.-backed programs that combat child labor, forced labor and other abuses in dozens of countries around the world, the Washington Post ...

A year after loosening child labor laws and two years after penalizing businesses that hired undocumented immigrants, Florida is now looking at removing all work restrictions on 16- and 17-year ...

A new bill, SB 918, shows that child labor is their answer. “Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people,” DeSantis said during a ...

If the state’s child labor laws are changed, the risk is that young workers will have fewer protections and will have a harder time saying no to employers, said Nina Mast, an analyst with the ...

A year after Florida lawmakers loosened the state’s child labor laws, another measure seeks to further roll back work restrictions for kids as young as 14. The controversial Senate bill has ...