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Article: State labor legislation enacted in 2006: minimum wages, workplace security, prevailing wages, equal employment opportunity, wages paid, time off, drug and alcohol testing, child labor, human trafficking, and immigrant protections were among the most active areas in which legislation was enacted or revised during the year.(State Labor Laws, 2006)
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- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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States enacted a volume of labor legislation in 2006 which was significantly less than that enacted in 2005. The decrease was due in part to the fact that only 44 States and the District of Columbia met in regular session during 2006, while the remaining 6 States (Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, and Texas) were not scheduled to meet in regular session. (All 50 States had met in regular session in 2005.) Several of the 6 States that did not meet in regular session did, however, convene in special sessions dedicated to various issues of special interest. At the time this article was submitted for publication, 42 of the 50 States, along with the District of ...
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