Abstract
This essay analyzes the federal child labor laws of Germany and the United States in an attempt to ascertain whether similarly extreme distinctions are evident in this area as well. The two bodies of law will be compared according to: (1) businesses or employers subject to the laws; (2) individuals protected; (3) exemptions or exceptions; (4) types of work prohibited for minors and scope of restrictions and duties on employers; and (5) penalties for violations and enforcement procedures. A study of Germany’s statute protecting the minor worker (jugendarbeitsschutzgesetz) and the child labor provisions of the United States’ Fair Labor Standards Act clearly supports the inference that child labor laws in the two countries are uniquely similar among otherwise disparate labor legislations.
Recommended Citation
Daugherty Rasnic, Carol
(1993)
"Unintended Sibling Legislation? Statutory Regulations of Child Labor in Germany and in the United States,"
Florida Journal of International Law: Vol. 8:
Iss.
2, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/fjil/vol8/iss2/1