Two parents have recently sued the Connecticut Department of Labor, asking the court rule that the child labor protection laws should not apply to situations such as theirs where they want their own kids to work in the family pizza place. 
The Connecticut Law Tribune has a good recap of the matter thus far.
Tomorrow, I’ll be speaking as part of the CBIA Wage & Hour Rx program. Full details are available here.
The presentation will focus on the issues that can keep employers up at night and how employers can dig themselves out of some of the problems that they may face. 
But in preparation for that presentation
As I reported a few weeks ago, 14- and 15-year-olds can legally work again in limited capacities in Connecticut. (Summer camp counselors are 
on the list.)
But how does state law compare to federal law?
Turns out the Office of Legislative Research has already done the research. OLR recently posted the results of their research