Virginia became the forty-third jurisdiction to pass a minimum wage law as 17 others strengthened such protection; California and nine other States took steps to aid farm workers. This is followed by summary of individual State labor legislation passed during 1975. (Author/BP)

Summaries are presented, by state, of labor standards legislation passed during 1984. Significant actions included laws concerning wages, child labor, school attendance, occupational safety and health, working hours, equal employment opportunity, worker privacy, labor relations, private employment agencies, employment and training, plant closings,…