These laws are not geared toward the casual parent who wants to share a picture of their child on Facebook. They’re putting guardrails in place for a form of child labor that has gone wildly unchecked ...

A janitorial company has been fined $649,000 after an investigation found it hired minors for dangerous jobs cleaning slaughterhouses, the United States Department of Labor said Monday. Fayette ...

Across the country, some officials — overwhelmingly Republicans — are looking for ways to usher underage workers into potentially dangerous jobs like factory work, including having them take ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker this week signed into law two labor-related measures, one of which prohibits employers from holding mandatory meetings for workers with anti-union messages. In addition to ...

The use of child labour has risen in cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast over the past decade despite industry promises to ...

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 ...

It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that, on Labor Day, we devote our attention to a subset of the American population who should not be working, or at least not working in jobs that are entirely ...

Two multibillion-dollar meatpacking companies will each pay $4 million after federal investigations revealed they had illicitly employed dozens of children through staffing agencies, the Labor ...

A GOP-led bill introduced in the House of Representatives last week would allow teenagers to work longer and later hours if signed into law by President Donald Trump. Newsweek has contacted ...