We tend to think of child labor under harsh conditions as a problem in developing countries, or in this country a century ago. So it was a shock to see this headline in the last couple of days: ...

The World Evangelical Alliance and the Salvation Army urged governments to “act with urgency” to end child labor after a ...

A recently released report from Common Good Iowa found that out of the 77 investigations conducted in 2024 by Iowa’s Wage and ...

Duvan Perez died last summer during his shift working on a Mississippi farm. His 16-year-old body "became entangled" in a poultry processing machine he was cleaning, according to Mar-Jac Poultry, the ...

Migrant children in the U.S. are working some of the most dangerous jobs in the country and private auditors assigned to root out unlawful labor practices often overlook child labor. The most common ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - Governor JB Pritzker signed into law Senate Bill 3646, the Child Labor Law of 2024, Tuesday which updates child labor regulations by repealing the existing statute and ...

Across the country, some officials — overwhelmingly Republicans — are looking for ways to usher underage workers into potentially dangerous jobs like factory work, including having them take ...

WIND training has opened my eyes to practical ways we can make our farms safer without huge investments,” said one ...

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 ...

A Popeyes restaurant in Troy, Michigan, has been cited after investigators determined the franchise violated child labor laws, the Department of Labor said. An investigation by the department's Wage ...

From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan's megacity of Karachi.

Thanks to previously unpublished Labor Department data, KPMG is now reporting the number of U.S. workers each month who are cutting their hours due to a lack of child care options. KPMG, the ...