US Sees Surge in Dangerous Attempts to Reduce Child Labor Regulations.
US politicians, backed by big business and lobby groups, are pushing to expand work hours for minors, reduce enforcement, and legislate sub-minimum wages for minors, while rolling back child labor protections at the federal and state levels. These rollbacks are being proposed even as child labor violations have soared in recent years. The logging industry is one of the most dangerous fields in which to work in the US, consistently leading with the highest workplace fatality rate in the nation.