The initiative embraces a strategy of enhanced enforcement, increased education, strong partnerships, and heightened public awareness to increase compliance with federal child labor laws. When a young person is working more than three hours on a school day, and even working until 11 o'clock at night, that inevitably is going to have a negative impact on their education. Our goal is to prevent that negative impact by vigorously enforcing the federal child labor laws. Under the federal child labor requirements, employment in specific hazardous occupations until age 18 is prohibited. There are also additional occupation restrictions for minors under 16, as well as hours and time restrictions for those under age 16.
Different standards apply to farm labor.
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