207051 Resource 147682 147761 147761 1213806144086 1213821366527 Controlled Summer Jobs & Child Labor

A little-noticed provision of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act increased child labor penalties under the Fair Labor Standards Act and added a significant penalty should an under-aged employee be seriously injured.

Penalties for violations have been increased to a possible $11,000 and there is a new $50,000 potential penalty if there is a death or serious injury of any employee under the age of 18 years who is working in violation of FLSA child labor limitations. The penalty may be doubled if the violation is a repeated or willful violation.  Serious injury means permanent loss or substantial impairment of one of the senses; permanent loss or substantial impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty; or permanent paralysis or substantial impairment that causes loss of movement or mobility of an arm, leg, or other body part.  Employers should take special care with regard to summer hires and to make sure that they are performing proper safety training.  These new penalties became effective immediately.Source: NAPEO.org 10 application/xml false child labor department of labor Fair labor standards act FLSA genetic information nondiscrimination act summer hires Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 jimt 216.58.130.130 false true false false true 214444 false false true false false false true 147682 blog blogsite/StaffScapes/web