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Child labor is back. That’s because rich corporations and their political parasites want it back. What better way, they doubtless imagine, for penniless, unaccompanied migrant children to spend ...
Child Labor Laws in Restaurants. United States federal laws protect children who are employed in the restaurant industry. Both the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Occupational Safety and Health ...
Child labor violations in the United States soared in the 2022-2023 fiscal year, according to data released by the Labor Department on Thursday, rising to their highest level in nearly two decades.
There’s been a serious increase in child labor law violations in the US over the past few years. Well known companies, consumer-facing name brands, have been caught employing children for ...
“The issue of child labor has become quite a pressing one in the seafood industry,” said Zoe Mermelstein, who is apart of the Yale Law Group.
160 million children, almost 1 in 10 worldwide, are engaged in child labor, with 80 million working in hazardous conditions in agriculture, mining, domestic labor, and other sectors. On tobacco ...
Congress is ramping up its probe into hundreds of reports of migrant child labor in the U.S. A House panel grilled a top official of a program responsible for placing these children in safe homes.
JBS USA and Perdue Farms will each pay $4 million for employing children through third-party staffing agencies, officials announced this week.
To ease labor shortages, lawmakers in some states have introduced legislation to loosen child labor laws, including in some of the most dangerous jobs.
The Morning Child Labor Today A Times exposé has revealed that young teenagers work long shifts, sometimes for nationally known brands. What can be done?
Union members and others around the state protested Saturday against the proposed loosening of Iowa's child labor laws. The protests were held in front of the Iowa Capitol and in Keokuk, Peosta ...
“The issue of child labor has become quite a pressing one in the seafood industry,” said Zoe Mermelstein, who is apart of the Yale Law Group. The family-owned business denies these allegations.