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Save the Children: The Legal Abandonment of American Youth in the Workplace

Today, the workplace is as much a part of American teen life as the Friday night football game and the school prom. Eighty to ninety percent of adolescents are employed at some point during high school. Contemporary child labor creates academic, physical, and developmental risks for these workers, particularly for those engaged in “high-intensity work” - more than twenty hours per week. Scores of teens are killed and hundreds of thousands injured on the job annually. Other hazards include increased rates of school dropout, teen pregnancy and sexual harassment on the job. The legal structure governing this labor market, the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act and state statutes, is weak and outdated; administrative enforcement is almost non-existent. There is little or no legal recourse for most of the young people who are the casualties in this situation. This Article proposes statutory and administrative reforms to protect working American children.