Perdue Farms has agreed to pay $4 million in restitution to settle a federal investigation into alleged child labor violations at the company’s poultry processing plant on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. In ...

Washington — The Biden administration on Monday announced a series of actions aimed at preventing the labor exploitation of migrant children released from U.S. custody, citing an increase in workplace ...

A Florida employment lawyer and policy analysts with the Florida Policy Institute warn that a new law affecting child labor protections on residential construction sites in Florida, effective July 1, ...

The Florida Legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis this year approved two separate bills that affect the state’s child labor laws. Both specifically loosen regulations for minors aged 16 and up, and will ...

The use of child labor has been the subject of federal law since the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. However, child labor laws go back more than a century earlier, to a Connecticut schooling law of ...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold five major technology companies liable over their alleged support for the use of child labor in cobalt mining operations in the Democratic Republic ...

A young Palestinian boy repairs a fishing net in the seaport of Gaza City in March 2016. He earns about $12.90 per week helping to support his family. (Reuters / Mohammed Salem) By signing up, you ...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has released the 22nd edition of its “Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor” report, which sheds light on some unsettling new statistics. According to a release ...

OMAHA, Neb. — The problem of kids working in dangerous slaughterhouses continues to be a concern as the Labor Department announced its third agreement this week with a company in the industry agreeing ...

Reporting progress made to tackle child labour in its cocoa supply chain, Nestlé said it aims at eradicating the practice but added ‘going to 100% requires huge efforts’. In 2012, Nestlé partnered ...

After being suspended for this take on imgur (see attachment), I've come to realize this is a very unpopular opinion. Or possibly its just the imgur community (young and far left). I believe this is ...

A coalition of McDonald’s shareholder groups is demanding the fast-food giant conduct a third-party human rights assessment, in response to a string of child labor violations found at the company’s ...