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Workforce Department Wants to Restrict Jobs Available to Some Teens

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The state Department of Workforce Development wants to update its child labor rules.Under the proposed new rules 16 year olds would be forbidden from driving on the job.Other jobs would also be off limits.Patty Murray reports…

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