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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) The mission of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is to save lives, prevent injuries and protect the health of America's workers. To accomplish this, federal and state governments must work in partnership with the more than 100 million working men and women and their six and a half million employers who are covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. |
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Created in March 2003, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The agency was created after 9/11, by combining the law enforcement arms of the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the former U.S. Customs Service, to more effectively enforce our immigration and customs laws and to protect the United States against terrorist attacks. ICE does this by targeting illegal immigrants: the people, money and materials that support terrorism and other criminal activities. ICE is a key component of the DHS "layered defense" approach to protecting the nation. |
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Employment Eligibility Verification All U.S. employers are responsible for completion and retention of Form I-9 for each individual they hire for employment in the United State. This includes citizens and noncitizens. On the form, the employer must verify the employment eligibility and identity documents presented by the employee and record the document information on the Form I-9. |
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Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) The mission of the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is to administer the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) and to enforce compliance with mandatory safety and health standards as a means to eliminate fatal accidents; to reduce the frequency and severity of nonfatal accidents; to minimize health hazards; and to promote improved safety and health conditions in the Nation's mines. MSHA carries out the mandates of the Mine Act at all mining and mineral processing operations in the United States, regardless of size, number of employees, commodity mined, or method of extraction. |
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US Department of Labor (US DOL) The U.S. Department of Labor is charged with preparing the American workforce for new and better jobs, and ensuring the adequacy of America's workplaces. It is responsible for the administration and enforcement of over 180 federal statutes. These legislative mandates and the regulations produced to implement them cover a wide variety of workplace activities for nearly 10 million employers and well over 100 million workers, including protecting workers' wages, health and safety, employment and pension rights; promoting equal employment opportunity; administering job training, unemployment insurance and workers' compensation programs; strengthening free collective bargaining and collecting, analyzing and publishing labor and economic statistics. |
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Wage and Hour Division of the US Department of Labor (US DOL) Provides employers and employees the information they need to understand Federal minimum wage, overtime, child labor, and record keeping requirements. The child labor section is designed to answer questions about Federal child labor rules from workers, parents, teachers, and employers. |
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| The Child Labor Coalition (CLC) |
The Child Labor Coalition (CLC) exists to serve as a national network for the exchange of information about child labor; provide a forum and a unified voice on protecting working minors and ending child labor exploitation; and develop informational and educational outreach to the public and private sectors to combat child labor abuses and promote progressive initiatives and legislation. |
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Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. |
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Interstate Labor Standards Association is an organization of state labor department officials. Members of our organization are responsible for administering and enforcing state labor laws. These laws may include child labor, dismissal rights, employer or contractor registration, workplace safety and health, wage protection and collection statutes covering wages and fringe benefits, minimum wage and overtime, prevailing wages, and other related laws. In most states, this responsibility lies with that state's labor department or similarly titled agency. The organization's purpose is to encourage and assist in improving the administration of the laws and regulations by exchanging labor standards information among member states. |
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the Federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related disease and injury. The Institute is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). |
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The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)'s Teen Worker Website provides information on how to recognize hazards on the job, how to prevent job injuries and more. You will also find great resources and links, fact sheets, and ideas for how to keep young workers healthy and safe on the job." |
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The Young Workers' Health and Safety Website is hosted by the Labor Occupational Health Program at the University of California at Berkeley, and takes the place of the former Young Worker Safety and Health Network website. This site provides information on workplace rights and responsibilities, work hours and job restrictions, hazards on the job, ways to prevent job injuries and more. You will also find educational resources, factsheets, and ideas for how to work with others in your community to keep young workers healthy and safe on the job. |
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| Protecting Youth at Work |
Protecting Youth at Work: A study on the health, safety and development of working children and adolescents in the United States done by the Committee on the Health and Safety Implications of Child Labor, Board on Children, Youth and Families, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Institute of Medicine. The study was supported by NIOSH, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National School-to-Work Office, the Wage and Hours Division of the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. |
