Child labor, along with wage theft and retaliation ... executive director of the Thai Community Development Center, which partnered with Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis’ office ...

"The [department] has cynically used the child labor allegation — which it manufactured ... said Chanchanit Martorell, head of the Thai Community Development Center, a community nonprofit.

these children were engaged in forced child labour, it said. Following international attention and action on labour exploitation in Thailand’s seafood industry, the Thai government and other ...

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., is the latest lawmaker looking to update the nation's antiquated child labor laws after a steep increase in violations over the last several years. Casey, who chairs the ...

The U.S. government found child labor violations involving over 3,800 minors in 2022. At the same time, some states say there is too much regulation of child labor. Katherine Walts, director of ...

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.

The surge in cases of illegal child labor come as some states are weakening their child labor laws, while some lawmakers have also pointed to an influx of unaccompanied minors crossing into the U ...

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 ...

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 ...

MORE: Labor Department cites meatpacking cleaning company for 'oppressive child labor' practices The company was also fined $296,951 for subjecting "10 children to oppressive child labor ...

“Little children working,” the visitor replied. Child labor might have shocked that outsider, but it was all too commonplace then across urban, industrial America (and on farms where it had ...

The lawsuit, brought by International Rights Advocates, seeks to have the government enforce a 1930s-era federal law that requires the U.S. to ban products created by child labor from entering the ...