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Urge Fair Labor Standards Act changes for employees under 16

Urge Fair Labor Standards Act changes for employees under 16

Education Labor
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Tim Schaffer
Last action
Official status
As Enrolled
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Urge Fair Labor Standards Act changes for employees under 16

To urge Congress to make changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act to allow a person under 16 years of age to be employed between 7 p.m.

What This Bill Does

  • To urge Congress to make changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act to allow a person under 16 years of age to be employed between 7 p.m.
  • and 9 p.m.
  • during the school year.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. Ohio Legislature

    As Introduced

  2. Ohio Legislature

    As Reported by the Senate Workforce Development Committee

  3. Ohio Legislature

    As Adopted by the Senate

  4. Ohio Legislature

    As Reported by the House Commerce and Labor Committee

  5. Ohio Legislature

    As Adopted by the House

  6. Ohio Legislature

    As Enrolled

Official Summary Text

To urge Congress to make changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act to allow a person under 16 years of age to be employed between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. during the school year.

Current Bill Text

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(136th General Assembly)

(Senate
Concurrent Resolution Number 3)

A concurrent resolution

To urge Congress to make
changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act to allow a person under 16
years of age to be employed between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. during the
school year.

Be it resolved by the Senate of
the State of Ohio (The House of Representatives concurring):

WHEREAS,
The United States lost over 22 million jobs and had an unemployment
rate of 14.8% in April 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,
the highest observed unemployment rate since data collection began in
1948; and

WHEREAS,
Employers are still experiencing a shortage of workers to fill the
eight million currently available positions, despite the economy
recovering jobs that were lost because of the COVID-19 pandemic; and

WHEREAS,
Teenage workers are becoming a larger portion of the United States
workforce, with an unemployment rate of 13.2% in November 2024; and

WHEREAS,
Business owners have had to adjust their operations in response to
the ongoing labor shortage, including decreasing their open hours;
and

WHEREAS,
Business owners could more quickly return to regular operations,
including resuming their usual open hours, by being able to hire the
necessary staff to meet their operating needs; and

WHEREAS,
The Fair Labor Standards Act and Ohio law permits a person under 16
years of age to work until 9 p.m. during summer months or other
school holidays; and

WHEREAS,
Extending the hours which a person under 16 years of age may work
during the school year allows business owners to hire the staff
required for the business to resume operating during its usual hours
of operation; and

WHEREAS,
Local economic growth results when more people are employed and earn
wages to spend on goods and services produced by businesses within
the local area, which in turn requires businesses to hire more
workers to meet the increased demand; now therefore be it

RESOLVED,
That we, the members of the 136th General Assembly of the State of
Ohio, urge the Congress of the United States to make changes to the
Fair Labor Standards Act to allow a person under 16 years of age to
be employed between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. during the school year if the
person has approval to do so from the person's parent or legal
guardian; and be it further

RESOLVED,
That the Clerk of the Senate transmit duly authenticated copies of
this resolution to the President Pro Tempore and Secretary of the
United States Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of the United States
House of Representatives, the members of the Ohio Congressional
delegation, and the news media of Ohio.

Speaker __________________
of the House of Representatives.

President
__________________ of the Senate.

Adopted _____________________, 20____