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Seven people were unaccounted for Wednesday afternoon after a fireworks storage facility in Yolo County erupted into a ...
Child labor in the U.S. agriculture and meat processing sectors has reached alarming levels, with estimates suggesting that between 300,000 and 500,000 children are working in agriculture alone.
In February 2023, the U.S. Labor Department discovered 102 children ages 13-17 working in meatpacking plants across the nation, including six at the Tyson plant in Green Forest that appears in my ...
Hundreds of ongoing investigations. The Labor Department has more than 1,000 open child labor investigations it is pursuing. And every one of these settlements includes a set of standards for ...
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 to pay a ...
Under a consent order and judgment approved by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa on Nov. 27, 2024, Qvest LLC must pay $171,919 in child labor civil money penalties, hire a ...
Bangladesh is the world's second-largest leather-exporting country. A quarter of the country's leather workers are children, according to a study by the University of Sussex. These youngsters are ...
Are drones better than fireworks? In short, yes. Although, the global drone industry and trade reveals a slightly more complex picture.
Child labour declined in India's incense stick industry, claims report by NGOs The research, conducted across Bihar, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh, highlighted progress in eradicating child ...
A supply chain scheme that brings supermarkets together to invest in long-term cocoa contracts can boost efforts to tackle child labour, farmers and industry leaders in Ivory Coast have said.