Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that repeals the limit on children working no more than 6 hours a day and 30 hours a week during school weeks and prohibits state labor officials from setting child labor regulations that exceed minimum federal protections in the state of Kentucky.

Highlights:

• Prohibits a person under eighteen years of age from being employed at the following gainful occupations (Sec. 1): 

• Manufacturing or storing explosives; 

• Driving a motor vehicle; 

• Coal mining; 

• Forestry services; 

• Operating power-driven woodworking machinery; 

• Exposure to radiation; 

• Operating meat processing equipment; 

• Operating power-driven bakery machines; 

• Operating power-driven balers; 

• Manufacturing bricks; 

• Operating power-driven circular saws; 

• Wrecking or demolishing operations; 

• Working in connections with an establishment where alcoholic liquors are sold; 

• Working in a pool; or

• Working in the electrical trade. 

• Establishes additional occupations as “gainful” occupations for persons under the age of sixteen and seventeen (Sec. 1). 

• Requires that persons sixteen years of age shall not be employed in gainful occupations unless it occurs (Sec. 2): 

• Outside of school hours; 

• Less than 40 hours a week; 

• Not more than 18 hours when school is in session; 

• Not more than 8 hours a day; 

• Not more than 3 hours in a school day; and

• Between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.

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