According to data from the United Nations, there are an estimated 152 million children between 5 and 17 years old engaged in ...

Toro and Yamaha to stop employing children illegally and to follow federal child labor laws in the future," the Labor Department said in a statement Monday. The $1.5 million that the company ...

One of her key priorities should be taking action to end hazardous child labor. My colleagues and I have researched hazardous child labor on US farms and interviewed children working exhausting 12 ...

Unfortunately, child labor – legally defined as work that interferes with children’s physical and mental development and school attendance - is on the rise for the first time in two decades. In fields ...

"The same violations are occurring nationwide, and we are doing everything we can to find violators and stop them. "Some state child labor laws differ from the federal child labor provisions of ...

U.S. Sen. Todd Young, an Indiana Republican, filed the bipartisan “Stop Child Labor Act” to increase maximum fines and penalties and allow victims to file lawsuits. The 2023 bill never moved ...

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is reinforcing the importance of educating parents and communities to eliminate child labor in all its forms in the Ilocos ...

Americans deserve fair wages, safe workplaces, and good benefits in exchange for their hard work—and forming a union helps ...

human trafficking and the worst forms of child labor — including child soldiers — by 2025. But controls to stop the employment of minors are rare, according to children's rights organization ...