Red states are responding to employer complaints about a tight labor market by loosening their child labor laws, exposing ...

Last year, the Florida Legislature enacted significant changes to the State’s Child Labor Laws through House Bill 49, and its ...

Florida, like some other states, is pushing softer child-labor laws to help businesses struggling to fill jobs and shifts.

A significant rollback for child labor laws in Florida received approval in its third and final committee stop in the House ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks with reporters after delivering his State of the State address during the first day of the legislative session at the Florida State Capitol on Tuesday, March 4, ...

Looser child labor laws threaten to transform the job market — and put HR leaders in a troubling position. Matt Ohrt didn't ...

The change could come at a time when Florida teens are contracting chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis at the highest rates ...

the DBPR has been the enforcing agency of Florida’s child labor laws. Under Florida law, the DBPR is authorized to grant waivers from certain child labor restrictions for minors by request.

A pair of bills in Tallahassee would allow students to work more hours. Critics worry that would threaten learning.

Renewed statehouse efforts to loosen child labor restrictions are pairing up with the Trump administration’s federal staff ...

WOOD: Federal laws are weaker, but Florida already loosened some child labor laws last year, and the state isn't alone. Nina Mast is a policy and economic analyst at the Washington-based Economic ...

Immigrant activist Thomas Kennedy writes that, after a 2023 anti-immigrant law that drove migrant laborers from the state, Florida is now both gutting child labor laws and trying to find ways ...