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 ...

The Labor Department has more than 1,000 open child labor investigations it is pursuing. And every one of these settlements ... violation of labor laws. This story has been corrected to show ...

Over the past fiscal year the department found more than 4,000 children in all industries employed in violation of federal child labor laws. That PSSI case got started after one 13-year-old ...

A West Virginia couple accused of neglect and forced labor involving their adopted children have been convicted by a jury ...

The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into an agreement with Perdue Farms Inc. to address child labor violations at its ...

Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.

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 to pay a pena ...