May 8th, 2024: Investigation finds 14-year-old children using razor-sharp deboning knives
May 8th, 2024: Investigations found 24 children, some just 13 years old, doing dangerous work in Iowa, Virginia
April 4th, 2024: The National Consumers League is condemning a vote by the Florida House of Representatives to approve legislation that will upend Miami-Dade’s proposed local workplace standards requiring drinking water, cooling measures, recovery periods, posting or distributing materials informing workers how to protect themselves, and requiring first aid or emergency responses. The Florida Senate approved the measure yesterday
April 4th, 2024: With the beginning of Farmworker Awareness Week today, the Child Labor Coalition (CLC), representing 37 groups engaged in the fight against domestic and global child labor, applauds Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) and for introducing the Children’s Act for Responsible Employment and Farm Safety (CARE)
April 4th, 2024: The Child Labor Coalition (CLC), representing 37 groups engaged in the fight against domestic and global child labor, expresses support for the innovative enforcement strategies in this week’s enforcement action by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)
March 28th, 2024: Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in India’s sandstone industry, withchildren doing dangerous work for low pay –often to decorate driveways and yards thousands of miles away.
February 8th, 2024: Oakland Popeyes operator to pay huge sum to feds after allegedly hiring kids as young as 13″ in the S.F. Chronicle
December 15th, 2023: More explosive reporting on hazardous child labor from Hannah Dreier and a team of reporters at the NY Times
December 6th, 2023: One of the problems with this whole debate is that legislators extol the value of teen work, but that’s not really the issue because every state allows teens to work.
November 28th, 2023: One of the problems with this whole debate is that legislators extol the value of teen work, but that’s not really the issue because every state allows teens to work.
CLC members—the Ramsay Merriam Fund, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National Education Association—made this web site possible through their generous support.