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Senator Luján Press Release: During Ag Week, Luján Introduces Legislation to Improve Child Protections and Safety Standards for Agriculture Industry

March 21th, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) introduced the Children’s Act for

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Thu Mar 21 2024

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

U.S. DOL News Release: Three McDonald’s Franchises in Kentucky Pay $212,000 in Fines after Federal Investigations Find 305 Minors — Including 10-year-olds — Working Illegally

May 2nd, 2023: Investigators from the department’s Wage and Hour Division found two 10-year-old

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Tue May 2 2023

New CLC Press Release: Chocolate Companies Must Do More to Reduce Widespread Child Labor Confirmed by New Report on the West African Cocoa Sector; Due Diligence Legislation is Needed to Fix Supply Chains

October 21st, 2020: A new report out this week confirms that the chocolate industry’s deep

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Wed Oct 21 2020

Press Release: Rep. Roybal-Allard, 24 Cosponsors Reintroduce CARE Act to Strengthen Protections for Child Farmworkers

June 24th, 2019: Today, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) led the reintroduction of her

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Mon Jun 24 2019

New GAO Report Raises Concern over the Health and Safety of Child Farmworkers in the United States

December 7th, 2018: In the wake of a new child labor report by the Government Accountability Office

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Fri Dec 7 2018

Child Labor Coalition joins calls for cleaner, more responsible jewelry supply chain

February 8th, 2018: The Child Labor Coalition (CLC) today joins nearly 30 NGOs and trade unions

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Thu Feb 8 2018

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