The fashion industry is one of the largest employers in the world, but it has a dark side. Many clothing brands rely on low-cost labor from developing countries, and unfortunately, child labor remains ...
Trump’s gutting of workplace safety enforcement comes as many states have rolled back their own efforts. That puts young workers at risk.
The U.S. Department of Labor is suing South Korean auto giant Hyundai Motor Co., an auto parts plant and a recruiting company after finding a 13-year-old girl illegally working on an assembly line in ...
Child labor and food fraud are food manufacturing activities that don’t bode well for food safety. Food fraud comes and goes, but child labor just continues to build, with the food industry losing any ...
An Alabama manufacturing facility for automaker Hyundai illegally jointly employed a 13-year-old to work as many as 50 to 60 hours per week making auto parts between 2021 and 2022, a U.S. Department ...
HAWAI‘I ISLAND, Hawai‘i (KITV) — A woman on the Big Island was indicted last week in connection to a child labor operation. Ludin Miranda, 26, was indicted by the Department of the Attorney General’s ...
A Florida employment lawyer and policy analysts with the Florida Policy Institute warn that a new law affecting child labor protections on residential construction sites in Florida, effective July 1, ...
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 a ...
Shake Shack will pay out nearly $250,000 for Massachusetts child labor law violations, Attorney General Andrea Campbell announced Tuesday. “Our child labor laws protect vulnerable young people as they ...
California’s AB 3234, which requires California employers to publicly disclose child labor findings and certain other information regarding voluntary labor compliance audits, will go into effect on ...