AUGUSTA — A bill to ease Maine’s child labor restrictions faces further House and Senate action after winning preliminary House approval.
Assistant Senate Republican Leader Debra Plowman’s bill would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to work longer hours and more often while school is in session.
Those teen-agers would be allowed to work as many as 24 hours rather than the 20 per week under current law. The bill would also increase from four to six the number of hours students can work on school days. The Sun Journal of Lewiston says the bill won preliminary House approval Wednesday.
A separate bill that sought to allow lower minimum wages for youths and remove limits on their school-week work hours has been killed.
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