Teen Health-Worker Rule by Labor Agency Missing Crucial Survey (1)

The Labor Department has yet to publish a key survey cited in its proposal to ease restrictions for teenage workers in health-care settings, despite letters and repeated requests from congressional representatives and worker advocates in recent weeks to do so.

The rule would let 16- and 17-year-olds who work in nursing homes or hospitals operate machines that lift patients from beds, without supervision. This would undo a 2011 policy that required supervision by a staffer who is 18 or older.

Deborah Berkowitz with the National Employment Law Project told Bloomberg Law the agency could be failing to provide the survey ...