OMAHA, Neb. — 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 ...

A 16-year-old boy from Guatemala was tragically killed in July 2023, when he was sucked into a deboning machine during his late-night shift at a meat processing plant in the US. Whilst these cases and ...

A traveling carnival business owner in Texas is the latest to be accused of labor exploitation amid a surge in calls for worker protection reforms and child labor violations across the nation. Angel ...

Child labor violations in Arkansas more than tripled over the last few years, according to a new study by Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families — but a new law passed by the state Legislature ...

The low-paying fast food industry has driven the surge in violations of child labor laws, with teens working longer and later than permitted under federal law. (iStock/halbergman) One of the largest ...

Another industrial slaughterhouse cleaner has been accused by the U.S. Labor Department of illegally employing children as young as 13 to clean dangerous equipment on overnight shifts, according to a ...

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 ...

In the dead of night, at meat processing plants across eight states, more than a hundred children were using scalding water and hazardous chemicals to clean blood and animal parts from dangerous ...

The talent gap has been a problem for manufacturers for at least 30 years now. More recently, it has become a problem for those concerned about children’s welfare: Driven by demand for workers, low ...

Children have again been found working at a Mar-Jac Poultry slaughterhouse, according to the US Department of Labor. The latest discovery in Alabama comes less than a year after a teen worker was ...

Nearly 138 million minors were engaged in child labour worldwide in 2024, according to a new report released on Wednesday by UNICEF and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The figure includes ...

Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, ...