Child labor violations up 283% since 2015 A troubling trend is brewing underneath America's strong employment market: more children are working in dangerous jobs, violating the nation's labor laws ...

We are working to end the worst forms of child labor and to ensure that all children are protected from jobs that interfere with their health, safety, and education. Saudi Arabia June 12, 2025 ...

Wong’s graduate students say their fieldwork brought them into contact with kids under 18 in incredibly hazardous jobs, including operating industrial lathe machines, working in a logging ...

Our job as we see it is to make sure people are safe, inform the employer and the employees, and fix the problem," said Deborah Kelly, director of the Division of Labor Standards & Safety for the ...

Vulnerable populations, including immigrants, are more vulnerable to exploitation, he said. Child labor violations were up nearly 70% since 2018, the Department of Labor reported in February.

I lied about my age to get my first job as a dishwasher at 14, and it taught me about hard work and “showing up on time every day.” I don’t often say this, “but I agree with Newt on this ...

Opponents of child labor observe that when kids under 18 work long hours or do strenuous jobs, it can disrupt childhood development, interfere with their schooling and deprive them of the sleep ...

The child labor protections established in 1938 by the Fair Labor Standards Act were designed to ensure just that — that children have safe, healthy jobs that do not stand in the way of their ...

Labor advocates on Tuesday decried a business-backed bill introduced by Republican state lawmakers in Iowa that would roll back child labor laws so that teens as young as 14 could work in ...

One 13-year-old suffered chemical burns. The kids all worked for a sanitation company in Minnesota and Nebraska. There are strict laws about what jobs and which hours children can work.