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

The proposal backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis would allow some teenagers to work full time on school days and take on overnight ...

Florida’s child labor law provides additional protections beyond what the federal Fair Labor Standards Act imposed in 1938.

In late March 2025, claims (archived) circulated online that the state of Florida was debating lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs formerly held by immigrants. However, while it is true ...

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 ...

Florida’s state’s legislature is debating a bill on Tuesday that would relax child labour rules and allow minors as young as 14 years old to work overnight on school days. According to the ...

One of her key priorities should be taking action to end hazardous child labor. My colleagues and I have researched hazardous child labor on US farms and interviewed children working exhausting 12 ...