State labor legislation enacted in 2005: minimum wage, child labor, drug and alcohol testing, equal employment opportunity, human trafficking, overtime, plant closings, prevailing wage, time off, wages paid, and worker privacy were among the most active categories of labor legislation enacted or amended during the year.(State Labor Laws, 2005)

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Fitzpatrick, John J., Jr. | Copyright information

A greater volume of labor legislation, concentrated in more than 30 tracked categories, was enacted in 2005, compared with the volume enacted in recent years. (1) Forty-eight of the 50 States, along with the District of Columbia, enacted labor legislation of consequence in the categories tracked. Iowa and Massachusetts were the only two States that had not done so at the time this article was written. Arkansas, California, Illinois, Maine, Montana, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, T...

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