According to The CARE Act, which stands for the Children’s Act for Responsible Employment, children are allowed to work in ...

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. Several ...

Ever since federal penalties totaling $1.5 million were imposed late last year on 13 meat plants contracting in eight states with Packers Sanitation Services Inc. for employing children in critical ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Several states are increasingly relaxing child labor laws, as studies show labor violations on the rise and teens are being injured at work. Since the pandemic, it’s now easier in ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks with reporters after delivering his State of the State address at the Florida State Capitol on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Tallahassee, Florida. Teenagers as young as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of leadership, culture & equity in business. How young is too young to work long hours? That is a ...

Child labor is back. What will we do about it? A dark shadow from America's past is re-emerging. The U.S. Labor Department's shocking revelation of a 37% increase in child labor violations isn't just ...

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 ...

Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and state legislatures have been working to fill a void left behind in the wake of the state penalizing employers who hired undocumented workers. A new bill, SB 918, shows ...

A St. James meat-processing plant not far from similar southern Minnesota plants owned by companies penalized last year for violating child labor laws has been fined $2 million for allegedly illegally ...

A decade ago, a goal was set to end child labour by 2025 under the UN’s Target 8.7. Yet, as Rwanda joins the world to mark Children’s Day under the theme ‘My Day, My Rights,’ on November 20, the ...