Before the advent of child labor laws, it was not uncommon for young children to work 10 hours or longer each day in dangerous or unclean conditions. Child labor laws are designed to protect the ...

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 ...

The use of child labor has been the subject of federal law since the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. However, child labor laws go back more than a century earlier, to a Connecticut schooling law of ...

Perdue Farms has agreed to pay $4 million in restitution to settle a federal investigation into alleged child labor violations at the company’s poultry processing plant on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. In ...

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has estimated that 218 million children between the ages of five and seventeen work in developing countries. Of these, 122.3 million children work in the ...

While the term “child labor” may conjure up sepia-toned images of factory urchins from the Industrial Revolution, reliance on young workers by U.S. businesses remains constant and has grown more ...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold five major technology companies liable over their alleged support for the use of child labor in cobalt mining operations in the Democratic Republic ...

My mother grew up on a family farm, the sixth of seven children who all helped my grandparents with a seemingly endless list of chores – yet also had plenty of time to play, read, and go to school.

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, ...

A Catholic bishop in the Philippines is drawing attention to the ongoing problem of child labor in the country, urging a cooperative effort to eliminate the factors driving children into often ...

Without coordination and integrated management, planned cities cannot be built, said CCC Mayor Dr Shahadat Hossain ...