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 ...

Child labor violations have been on the rise since 2015 after declining for years, according to data from the U.S. Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division. The total number of violations is much ...

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 ...

These weren’t isolated cases. US child labor violations have jumped in recent years. Some well-known companies, consumer-facing name brands, have been caught employing children for grueling work ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Child labor violations are on the rise, the Department of Labor says. Matt Rourke AP In the U.S., child labor violations have risen in recent years — including some that have proven deadly ...

Downers Grove-based Hearthside Food Solutions has agreed to settle a child labor investigation by the Illinois Department of Labor and attorney general for $4.5 million. The state agencies opened ...