Unfortunately, child labor – legally defined as work that interferes with children’s physical and mental development and school attendance - is on the rise for the first time in two decades. In fields ...

The U.S. government found child labor violations involving over 3,800 minors in 2022. At the same time, some states say there is too much regulation of child labor. Katherine Walts, director of ...

Poultry workers are uniting with faith-based investors to eliminate child labor in the poultry ... [+] industry. ML: This is a pretty concerning situation for workers and people here in the ...

Of nearly 250 million children engaged in child labor around the world, the vast majority- 70 percent, or some 170 million-are working in agriculture. Child agricultural workers frequently work ...

Home-schooled kids frequently participate in extracurricular activities with their peers in public school. Not requiring them ...

After years of decline in child labor, the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many African children back to work. Cameroon's capital, Yaounde, is teeming with young vendors. Most of them are children ...

Businesses that violate the rules governing the time and hours that teenagers may work will face a $2,500 penalty for each instance, down from $10,000.

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 ...

Incidents of child, forced labour and human trafficking still linger in the country’s fisheries sector, notes the Fisheries Commission.The commission said these incidents are on the rise and prevalent ...

The phenomenon of child labor is inextricably linked to education. Children who have no access to quality schooling often enter the workforce, particularly if they are from poor families that need ...