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Lisa Kristine: Well, I make my work very intuitively. So the obvious thing is that I’m looking for, in this case, child labor but I think I’m drawn to just the spirit of who somebody is.
Photographer Robert A. Flischel shares a curated historical account of poverty and pain in Cincinnati and beyond in his photo ...
An Alabama poultry processor will pay $385,000 to the Department of Labor for illegally employing children as young as 13 ...
A federal appeals court rejected a proposed class action by citizens who sought to hold chocolate giants liable for child ...
State cannabis agency says it is investigating a child labor complaint about Glass House that was filed in May ...
According to the Department of Labor, the number of minors involved in documented child labor violations (not including the ones that are never reported) increased a mind-boggling 472% between ...
Seyfarth Synopsis: Child labor laws remain fertile ground for government enforcement as evaluate key issues for 2024. Late last year, the Wage Hour Division released guidance for new processes to ...
The Illinois Department of Labor and attorney general’s office opened a joint investigation into Hearthside, which was named in a sweeping New York Times investigation into migrant child labo… ...
In contrast, sub-Saharan Africa has the highest global rate of child labor — about 1 in 4 kids work. And the report points out there has only been a slight improvement, with the rate dropping ...
Child labor protections in America are being challenged at the state level and, in some cases, reversed in ways we haven’t seen in decades. In 2022 and 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Hampshire, and ...
GOP state Rep. Jeff Holcomb, who sponsored a bill to loosen child labor law that passed the Florida House in February, said that he has worked since he was 12.
A Tennessee parts manufacturer for major companies including John Deere and Yamaha has been ordered to turn over $1.5 million in profits after the Department of Labor found children employed in ...