State labor legislation
enacted in 2001
State labor legislation enacted in 2001 covered a wide variety of employment standards and included several significant developments.1 Minimum wages rates were increased in a number of States, child labor measures were enacted, governing employment in the entertainment industry and placing limits on children selling products door-to-door, and employment discrimination on the basis of genetic information or other reasons was banned in several States. Laws also were enacted in the emerging areas of regulating employee monitoring in the workplace, allowing breaks for nursing mothers, providing benefits for domestic partners, and addressing workplace harassment and violence.
This article summarizes significant State labor legislation enacted in 2001. It does not, however, cover legislation on occupational safety and health, employment and training, labor relations, employee background clearance, economic development, and local living wage ordinances. Changes in unemployment insurance and workers' compensation laws appear elsewhere in this issue.
This excerpt is from an article published in the January 2002 issue of the Monthly Labor Review. The full text of the article is available in Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF). See How to view a PDF file for more information.
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Footnote
1 All of the State legislatures met in regular session in 2001. Alabama, Alaska, Mississippi, and
Missouri did not enact significant legislation in the fields covered by this article. Information about Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands was not received in time to be included in the article, which is based on information received by November 9, 2001.
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