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 ...

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 ...

"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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...