New laws taking effect on January 1 in four states would crack down on companies using child labor laws or violating already-existing laws, while one state loosened its child labor laws.

Child labor laws will change in five states in 2025, with Indiana and Illinois passing the most far-reaching of these new laws. New laws taking effect on January 1 in four states would crack down ...

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 market stayed strong this year despite the Federal Reserve's aggressive interest rate hikes, which were designed to slow the economy and bring down stubbornly high inflation. The ...

Over the past fiscal year the department found more than 4,000 children in all industries employed in violation of federal child labor laws. Mar-Jac poultry plant's "inaction" led to death of teen ...

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Loren Legarda lauded the gains of the 2003 Anti-Child Labor Law in reducing the number of Filipino children working in unsafe conditions, but acknowledged that poverty ...

Michigan Politics: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to deliver 2025 State of the State speech Feb. 26 A 2023 investigation published by The New York Times uncovered child labor law violations in the U.S. and ...