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Child Labor: Work Permit and Death and Injury Reporting Systems in Selected States

HRD-92-44FS Published: Mar 16, 1992. Publicly Released: Mar 16, 1992.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO compared how state certification procedures for child labor differ from the federally-mandated child labor work permit system that would be established under the Child Labor Amendments of 1992, focusing on: (1) how state work permit systems in three states differ from the type of system that the proposed legislation would require; and (2) changes those states would need to make to comply with the proposed requirements.

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