Greeley-based JBS USA Food Co. has reached a $4 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor over for child-labor ...

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.

A typical argument against the participation of young individuals in the labor market goes like this: Child labor deprives children of their childhood, their potential, and their dignity. It harms ...

Agribusiness giants Purdue Farms and JBS Foods, along with a slaughterhouse cleaning company, paid about $8.4 millions in fines for having underaged workers in dangerous jobs.

A Little Caesars in Farmington Hills had to pay over $26,000 in penalties after it allegedly allowed minors to work late on ...

JBS USA Food Co., one of the nation's largest meatpacking processors and slaughterhouses, has agreed to a joint initiative with the U.S. Labor Department to end illegal child labor practices ...

All three of these announcements come just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, but they follow a number of other child labor investigations in the meatpacking industry in the past ...

Child care costs have continued to rise year after year, ballooning 20% since 2019. Prices are highest in the state’s major ...

All three of these announcements come just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, but they follow a number of other child labor investigations in the meatpacking industry in the ...

The Labor Department and other federal agencies in recent years have moved to crack down on the use of child labor amid reports that it has become rampant in some industries, including meat ...