Explain the special duties owed to minors. What principles are these duties based on?
Both state and federal governments have special regulations protecting minors who work from working overextended hours and in dangerous working conditions. Although federal and state laws vary they are all based on the following principles: (1) A person’s early years are best used to obtain an education. (2) Certain work is harmful or dangerous for young people. (3) Child labor at low wages takes jobs from adults. In addition some states have child labor laws that (1) set the maximum number of working hours in one day that a minor can work, (2) prohibit night work, (3) decide what grade a child must have completed in school prior to being able to work, (4) set the required age for certain hazardous occupations, and (4) restrict the hours of work to between 5 in the morning and 10 in the evening.