YOU'VE seen them in the novels of Charles Dickens and the proletarian novelists of 1930s America, books that deal with child laborers in the factories and fields. Harnessing child labor prevents them ...

Members of the DOLE-7 Regional Council Against Child Labor, parents and partner stakeholders sign a pledge of commitment during an information and service caravan on Nov. 22, 2025. (PIA7) For Noreen ...

Marnel Arcones, 21, a former child worker, is seen outside his home in Cambayan village on Samar island in the Philippines October 12, 2015. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Astrid Zweynert SAN MIGUEL, ...

KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato (PIA) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Region 12 recently held the second ‘Dalagan Para sa Kabataan’ at Robinsons Place General Santos City. The event was ...

As child labor laws loosen across states, putting more kids to work, violations are simultaneously increasing. If you’re thinking of hiring workers who are under 18, businesses need to understand the ...

Since 2021, many states have been considering or have passed legislation to weaken child labor laws, while a smaller number have considered or have been strengthening and updating the laws on their ...

“If there is any matter upon which civilized countries have agreed …, it is the evil of premature and excessive child labor.” So said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in 1918, ...

If it seems like child labor has been in the news a lot lately, that’s because it has. In recent months, a number of companies, many of them in the food industry, have been accused of violating ...

Child labor protections in America are being challenged at the state level and, in some cases, reversed in ways we haven’t seen in decades. In 2022 and 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Hampshire, and New ...