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BAGUIO CITY (PIA) – Child labor remains a pressing problem not only in the Philippines but in the world. In 2023, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported an estimated 1.09 million working ...

"While job recovery in the Philippines has been encouraging in the post-COVID-19 period, the quality of jobs remains a critical concern, with many workers still facing challenges such as ...

THE Philippines and Finland on Thursday signed a joint declaration of intent to seal a bilateral labor agreement this year. “Safe, ethical, transparent, and sustainable recruitment will happen and ...

In addition to the penalties for the child labor violations, the agreement requires QSI LLC to do the following: Re-survey all of its work locations to determine if any employees are under the age ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brazilian meat major JBS’s US arm has signed an agreement with the American government to address child labour issues. JBS will provide $4m to assist individuals and communities “affected by ...

These conditions violate the Fair Labor Standards Act’s child labor hazardous orders and hours provisions. The division’s investigation also determined Perdue Farms violated the FLSA’s ...

In addition to the establishment of the $4 million fund for victims of child labor, JBS will also hire a child labor compliance specialist to review policies and maintain an ethics hotline for ...

The deals, announced this week, are part of a flurry of child labor settlements that have come in the last days of the Biden administration, which has been cracking down on the practice.