Sentences with phrase «child labor provisions»

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Among many provisions, Section 4207 of the law amends the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 (29 U.S. Code 207) to require an employer to provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for one year after the child's birth each time such employee has need to express milk.

The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week approved a bill to reauthorize Head Start that includes provisions that would, among other things, improve program quality and create a small grant program to serve families with children under age 3.

Rather than providing students skills that have real currency in today's labor market and preparing them for gainful employment, accountability provisions in the federal No Child Left Behind Act and Race to the Top funding program have focused on increasing short - term gains that measure success or failure of schools.

Not only can the provision of high - quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) facilitate women's participation in the labor force, it can also have a positive effect on their children's educational performance.

«Military families serve our country in so many ways, so I'm proud that our education bill to fix No Child Left Behind takes important steps to better serve military - connected kids,» said Sen. Patty Murray, D - Wash., ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and a driving force behind the provision for the military student identifier.

A few things are clear after today's Senate Health Education Labor & Pensions Committee hearing on the Obama administration's move to eviscerate the accountability provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act.

: A major fear among reformers is that the ascent of John Kline to the chairmanship of the House Education and Labor Committee will lead to the gutting of the Adequate Yearly Progress and other accountability provisions within the No Child Left Behind Act.

There is a specific exemption in 29 USC 213 (c)(3) that The provisions of section 212 of this title relating to child labor shall not apply to any child employed as an actor or performer in motion pictures or theatrical productions, or in radio or television productions.

Contributions of the study include an intergenerational approach using multilevel analyses, which explicitly examine the association between intensive grandparental childcare and cross-national differences in the demographic and socio - economic characteristics of children, parents, and grandparents and in labor market structures, formal childcare provision, and cultural expectations regarding paid work among mothers with young children.