제 목 : Laber Department Cracks Down on Child Labor
일 자 : 1996년 10월
제공처 : Safety ＆ Health
Young workers are among the most exploited of any in the labor force.
And now the Labor Department's Region 8 office in Denver is
cracking down on hotels, motels and restaurants that use illegal
child labor or violate minimum-wage and overtime requirements
with teenagers.
The Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division Child Labor
Strike Force is stepping up efforts to protect young workers
from exploitation.
The initiative is part of the "Work Safe This Summer" campaign,
which also includes the participation of OSHA, NIOSH,
the Child Labor Coalition, the Employment and Training
Administration and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
There are about 70 work-related deaths of children
under l8 each year, according to NIOSH. Experts believe teenagers
are especially vulnerable to exploitation because they are
inexperienced, often poorly trained and less likely to complain
about their working conditions.
This strike force, which is targeting Colorado and southern Wyoming,
is the second of three planned in the region. Last summer a similar
strike force uncovered more than 2l5 violations of child-labor laws
and issued more than $l69,000 in civil penalties.
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