Since the pandemic, it’s now easier in many states for employers to hire children or schedule them for longer hours.

As the winter sun rises behind him, Carlos Esteban Rios sits in a Costa Mesa parking lot, waiting for a ride from a boss he’s never met and looking over some chemistry homework he might never turn in.

In fiscal year (FY) 2023, more than half of all U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) child labor investigations resulted in a violation. Of the 955 child labor investigations with violations—a 14 percent ...

It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that, on Labor Day, we devote our attention to a subset of the American population who should not be working, or at least not working in jobs that are entirely ...

Journalist records squalidness, allegedly at Gap Indian subcontractor plant. LONDON, Oct. 28, 2007 — -- The multi-billion dollar global fashion company Gap has admitted that it may have ...

The U.S. Department of Labor called it “one of the largest wage violation settlements ever reached” for domestic poultry workers. In addition to securing a consent decree, DOL obtained a permanent ...

NEW YORK — The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday sued South Korean auto giant Hyundai Motor Co, an auto parts plant and a labor recruiter over illegal use of child labor in Alabama. The complaint, ...

Samuel Estreicher is Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law, New York University School of Law. In 2000, Congress enacted the Trafficking Victims ...