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USDOL Press Release: DOL Fines Children Employed Illegally in Dangerous Jobs, Obtains $4.8M in Wages, Damages for Poultry Industry Workers in California

May 8th, 2024: Investigation finds 14-year-old children using razor-sharp deboning

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Wed May 8 2024

USDOL Press Release: Tennessee Cleaning Firm Fined $649,000 in Child Labor Penalties; Kids, as Young as 13, Cleaned Killing Floor and Machinery

May 8th, 2024: Investigations found 24 children, some just 13 years old, doing dangerous work in

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Wed May 8 2024

Seven Child Labor Best Practices for Employers from U.S. DOL

From the U.S. Department of Labor…. Train Management Train supervisors and managers on child

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Fri Apr 26 2024

Child Labor Coalition lauds Wage and Hour’s child labor enforcement strategies that include creating a fund for victims and use of “hot goods” provisions

April 4th, 2024: The Child Labor Coalition (CLC), representing 37 groups engaged in the fight

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Thu Apr 4 2024

NY Times: “Children Risk Their Lives Building America’s Roofs

December 15th, 2023: More explosive reporting on hazardous child labor from Hannah Dreier and a

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Fri Dec 15 2023

Congressman Morgan McGarvey Introduces Bill to Help USDOL Build Its Labor Inspectorate

December 6th, 2023: One of the problems with this whole debate is that legislators extol the value

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Fri Dec 15 2023

Press Release: Schatz, Young Introduce New Legislation to Help Stop Child Labor

October 20th, 2023: Bipartisan Bill Establishes New Criminal Penalties, Imposes New Steep Fines For

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Thu Nov 9 2023

U.S. DOL News Release: Court orders operators of 14 Bay Area Subway locations to pay employees nearly $1M in wages, damages; sell or shut down their businesses

October 10th, 2023: Labor Department finds employers endangered children, bounced paychecks, stole

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Tue Oct 10 2023

Amazing, must-listen podcast….“Why Are States Loosening Child Labor Laws?” –New York Times child labor reporter Hannah Dreier and the CLC’s Norma Flores López on Roy Woods Jr. video podcast, “Beyond the Scenes – The Daily Show”

May 10th, 2023: Amazing, must-listen

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Wed May 10 2023

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.