Hundreds of ongoing investigations. The Labor Department has more than 1,000 open child labor investigations it is pursuing. And every one of these settlements includes a set of standards for ...

The US Department of State canceled a key meeting with executives from some of the country’s biggest companies, as well as labor advocates, academics and other experts, to discuss combating ...

Notably, the Florida Policy Institute found that Florida had 209 child labor violations in 2023, which amounted to the second-highest number of child labor violations in the state since 2008.

That story should have spurred a nationwide push to strengthen child labor laws.Instead, states like Florida are going in the opposite direction, weakening such laws in part to deal with the ...

In Honduras, one Labor Department grant has disbursed more than $13 million to fight child labor and other labor exploitation since 2014. That has resulted in more than 6,000 children and youths ...

They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing the number of kids who work but says the numbers remain "unacceptable." ...

WARNING! This article contains SPOILERS for Severance season 2, episode 8!Revealing a dark and tragic backstory for Patricia Arquette’s character, Severance season 2, episode 8 sheds some light ...

In his first general audience of the year, Pope Francis called on the global community to eradicate child labor, urging that we "cannot remain indifferent, cannot accept that little sisters and ...

We probably don’t wonder whether child labor is involved. But unfortunately, that’s increasingly likely.In recent years, federal investigations have uncovered children working in dangerous ...

Patricia Ortiz, directing attorney, at the California Rural Legal Assistance, gives insight on common fears among ...