Sentences with phrase «child labor standards»

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), enacted in 1938, is the federal law that governs minimum wages, maximum work hours, overtime pay, equal pay and child labor standards.

In short, the FSLA provides employee rights and protections, particularly in areas such as minimum wage, hours and overtime, child labor standards and recordkeeping.

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Those standards include prohibiting child harassment and abuse or forced labor, and ensuring fair pay and benefits.

With this new national standard, child labor will be prohibited, migrant workers will be protected from exploitation and safe working conditions will be enforced.

I actually had one doctor in Wheeling tell me that if I refused * any * of the procedures she considers standard (including induction right at 40 weeks, an IV, and constant fetal monitoring), that she will refuse to deliver my child, even if I'm in the maternity ward and in active labor!

Still, her labor with this child took place far enough back that pain - killing medication was a pretty standard thing.

Colorado: the federal standards are extended to TWO years after the birth of the child, and the Department of Labor in that state provides a list of ways for employers to accommodate nursing mothers.

States labored for decades to put such standards in place, prodded in 1994 by the federal Goals 2000 Act, then in 2002 by the No Child Left Behind Act, with its insistence on annual testing and consequential accountability.

Known as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the document — which must be ratified by 20 countries to become effective — sets standards on various issues that affect children, including education, adoption, parental care, health, child labor, and abuse and negChild, the document — which must be ratified by 20 countries to become effective — sets standards on various issues that affect children, including education, adoption, parental care, health, child labor, and abuse and negchild labor, and abuse and neglect.

It also could negate state laws on everything from pesticide exposure to child labor, fire - safe cigarettes, alcohol, and seed standards.

The province of Lualaba is trying to improve the standards and image of its artisanal mines by guarding entrances and offering minerals certified by the government to be free from child labor.

It requires «traceability,» making «transparent» the whole production chain from the planting of cotton to the final consumer; to confirm the standards of organic production, fair trade with producers and workers, the lack of child labor, etc.; hence, what is very important for everyone, is to secure supplies.