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 ...

BAGUIO CITY (PIA) – The Department of Education-Cordillera builds up support for collaborative efforts aimed at combatting child labor. During the Child Labor–Effective Awareness and Response in ...

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 ...

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 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.

The children were hired through Staff Management Solutions, which was fined $125,000 for the child labor allegations, according to the Labor Department. The agreement with JBS USA, based in ...

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 ...

JBS USA Food Co., a leading meat packing processor and slaughterhouse, will provide $4 million to address illegal child labor practices nationwide, according to a Monday announcement from the U.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 ...

ACCOMAC, VA - Perdue Farms Inc. has agreed to pay $4M to address alleged child labor violations found during a federal investigation into their poultry processing facility in Accomack County.