Sweeping New Child Labor Law Reforms Take Effect July 19, 2010

The most sweeping reform of U.S. laws concerning child labor in three decades will go into effect on July 19, 2010.  The new regulations  spell out more precisely what jobs and hours youths under 16 may work and for the first time allows youths as young as 14 to perform "intellectual" and "artistic" work, such as computer programming, drawing and teaching.