A safer workplace environment
Florence Kelley is one of the leading advocates for children. Kelley declared that Americans must rally to protect “a right to childhood.” In 1893, Kelley persuaded the Illinois legislature to outlaw child labor and limit working hours for women, and she became head of the National Consumers’ League, which prepared consumer pressure for improved factory conditions. The workplace safety rely on expert research. The bacteriologist Alice Hamilton, a pioneer in the new field of industrial hygiene, reported on lead poisoning among industrial workers in 1910. As an investigator for the U.S. Bureau of Labor, Hamilton publicized other work-related medical hazards. Workers who well understood the hazards of their …show more content…
“The Kern-McGillicuddy Act of 1916 is established that federal employees would be compensated if hurt on the job. The United States Employees’ Compensation Act is a federal law, enacted on September 7, 1916. Sponsored by Senator John W. Kern, Democrat of Indiana and Representative Daniel J. McGillicuddy, Democrat of Maine, it established compensation to federal civil service employees for wages lost due to jot-related injuries. This act became the precedent for “Disability Insurance” across the country and the precursor to broad-coverage health insurance. President Woodrow Wilson signed H.R. 15316 into law on September 7, 1916. However, the Commission did not exist at the time the FECA went into effect and claims accumulated for more than six months while members were selected and sworn into office. The Federal Employees’ Compensation Commission officially began its duties on March 14, 1917. The Commission was abolished on May 161946 by President Harry S. Truman as part of the Reorganization Act of 1939. Its duties were transferred to the Federal Security Agency on July 16, 1946.” Furthermore, employees are covered with disability insurance, in which they will still receive pay even though they are unable to work. The disability insurance provide cash to help ease the financial stress of a covered illness or injury, but this disability insurance never benefit child labor. The children who work …show more content…
In the nineteenth century trade unions advocate restrictions on child labor argue that work deprived children of equal access to education and that the low wages paid to children depressed the wages of working adults. The National Consumers League took the lead in the fight against child labor along with social services organizations. The Child Labor Committee (NCLC) worked to mobilize the public, labor unions, and politicians against child labor. The model law promoted by the National Child Labor Committee the standard minimum age of fourteen for working in factories, and sixteen in mines; an eight hour day for fourteen- and fifteen-year-old industrial workers; and no night work for youth under the age of
Florence Kelley is one of the leading advocates for children. Kelley declared that Americans must rally to protect “a right to childhood.” In 1893, Kelley persuaded the Illinois legislature to outlaw child labor and limit working hours for women, and she became head of the National Consumers’ League, which prepared consumer pressure for improved factory conditions. The workplace safety rely on expert research. The bacteriologist Alice Hamilton, a pioneer in the new field of industrial hygiene, reported on lead poisoning among industrial workers in 1910. As an investigator for the U.S. Bureau of Labor, Hamilton publicized other work-related medical hazards. Workers who well understood the hazards of their …show more content…
“The Kern-McGillicuddy Act of 1916 is established that federal employees would be compensated if hurt on the job. The United States Employees’ Compensation Act is a federal law, enacted on September 7, 1916. Sponsored by Senator John W. Kern, Democrat of Indiana and Representative Daniel J. McGillicuddy, Democrat of Maine, it established compensation to federal civil service employees for wages lost due to jot-related injuries. This act became the precedent for “Disability Insurance” across the country and the precursor to broad-coverage health insurance. President Woodrow Wilson signed H.R. 15316 into law on September 7, 1916. However, the Commission did not exist at the time the FECA went into effect and claims accumulated for more than six months while members were selected and sworn into office. The Federal Employees’ Compensation Commission officially began its duties on March 14, 1917. The Commission was abolished on May 161946 by President Harry S. Truman as part of the Reorganization Act of 1939. Its duties were transferred to the Federal Security Agency on July 16, 1946.” Furthermore, employees are covered with disability insurance, in which they will still receive pay even though they are unable to work. The disability insurance provide cash to help ease the financial stress of a covered illness or injury, but this disability insurance never benefit child labor. The children who work …show more content…
In the nineteenth century trade unions advocate restrictions on child labor argue that work deprived children of equal access to education and that the low wages paid to children depressed the wages of working adults. The National Consumers League took the lead in the fight against child labor along with social services organizations. The Child Labor Committee (NCLC) worked to mobilize the public, labor unions, and politicians against child labor. The model law promoted by the National Child Labor Committee the standard minimum age of fourteen for working in factories, and sixteen in mines; an eight hour day for fourteen- and fifteen-year-old industrial workers; and no night work for youth under the age of