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 ...

In crude mines across Central and Sub-Saharan Africa, hands that should hold pencils and schoolbooks hammer rocks and search ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shein is under fire once again after it announced in its latest sustainability and social impact report that it discovered ...

The talent gap has been a problem for manufacturers for at least 30 years now. More recently, it has become a problem for those concerned about children’s welfare: Driven by demand for workers, low ...

There are 138 million children who remain in child labour, and that is “simply unacceptable,” says Director-General, International Labour Organisation, Gilbert Houngbo, the News Agency of Nigeria ...

In this article we will share the list of 20 countries that use child labor or forced labor for goods production. Although the world has progressed so much, two inhumane forms of labor — child labor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that, on Labor Day, we devote our attention to a subset of the American population who ...

As Indiana’s part-time legislature returned to the Statehouse in January, a new law allowed another group of Hoosiers to spend more time in the workforce. Those workers are teens, some as young as 14, ...

Under the Biden administration, child labor violations have been one of DOL’s most visible enforcement areas. The agency has issued a number of fines, particularly in the restaurant sector. Last June, ...