Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan union rally Porchá Perry demonstrates with other workers in Lansing, Michigan, in favor of bills restoring local control ...

In the past two years, lawmakers in at least 11 states have sought to loosen child labor laws to help employers fill empty jobs, even as federal officials and news investigations suggest that many ...

Lawmakers in several states have promoted, and in some cases enacted, rules to roll back child labor laws in hopes of creating more opportunities for minors to take on jobs that employers have ...

Arkansas is rolling back some child labor protections after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders this week signed a new law to make it easier for children under 16 to get hired. The Arkansas law, called the ...

High school freshman girls should not double as cocktail waitresses at night. That’s not a sentence I thought needed to be said, but here we are in 2023, and there are conservative lawmakers in ...

It took vigilance by educators at Walnut Middle School in Grand Island, Nebraska, to blow open one of the most egregious cases of U.S. child labor abuse in recent memory. In August 2022, the school ...

Does back labor really happen? Answer From Yvonne Butler Tobah, M.D. "Back labor," a term used to describe labor in which the most discomfort is felt in the lower back, does happen. Back labor ...

A hotly debated bill in Iowa would roll back some child labor protections, including the number of hours minors could work during a day. There's been a fierce debate in many states this year about ...