However, there’s often an uptick in child labor when the job market is tight, said David Weil, the former dean at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and former ...

OMAHA, Neb. — The problem of kids working in dangerous slaughterhouses continues to be a concern as the Labor Department announced its third agreement this week with a company in the industry agreeing ...

More child labor violations appear to be on the horizon for the regulated meat industry, Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods are reportedly under renewed federal scrutiny for possible illegal child labor ...

Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.

California Public Employees’ Retirement System ratcheted up its scrutiny of private-equity manager Blackstone in the wake of a child labor scandal at a company the firm owns. During a Tuesday ...

Trained as a sociologist, Lewis Hine picked up a camera and trained it on the cheap labor performed by children in American factories and on farms. The exploitation shocked the public, Hine’s poetic ...

At least half a dozen red states have stripped away some child labor protections, allowing children to work longer hours, or in hazardous jobs, or without parental approval, or without rest breaks.

General Motors shareholders voted down a proposal that sought to provide more insight into the use of child labor across the company's electric vehicle battery supply chain. The proposal would have ...

This has been a long and difficult week. Two-thirds of the workers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are expected to lose their job, part of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ...

Cracking down on child labor, protecting animals in rural areas and protecting librarians caught in the crossfire of a culture war are among the requests facing Madison County lawmakers heading into ...

Florida Sen. Jay Collins, R-Tampa, says his bill is simply “lining Florida up with federal law” on child labor. The federal law he’s referring to was passed in 1938. Credit: Photo via Jay ...