U.S. News Archives | International Initiative to End Child Labor

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In Agriculture, child labor, Child labor enforcement, child labor in agriculture, child labor livestock, Child Labor News, Children in the Fields, Girls in child labor, Hazardous Labor, U.S. News, worst forms child labor Posted September 18, 2012

USA-Nebraska: Valentine auction sale barn hit with 26 child labor violations – Record

The Department of Labor opened an investigation of the sale barn that October and discovered 26 violations of the child labor laws. The sale barn allowed five minors to herd cattle, employed [...]

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In Agriculture, child labor, child labor in agriculture, Child labor in tobacco, Child Labor News, Children in the Fields, Hazardous Labor, U.S. News, worst forms child labor Posted September 14, 2012

USA-NC: Loophole in US child labor law allows children’s exposure to tobacco nicotine – HRW

In eastern North Carolina, HRW researchers interviewed children as young as 14 who worked in tobacco, and recent news reports describe children as young as nine and 10...

By Umbrellus LLC

In Agriculture, child labor in agriculture, Child Labor News, Child workers, Children in the Fields, Corporate Social Responsibility, Event or Meeting, Hazardous Labor, Social Responsibility, U.S. News, worst forms child labor Posted September 13, 2012

USA: Whole Foods Fails To Denounce Links To Child Labor – UNFI Press Release

UNFI, Whole Foods Fail To Denounce Links To Child Labor [12-September-2012] Teamsters to Call on Organic Food Giants to Take a Stand against Child Labor at 2PM Press Conference (Tukwila, WA) – [...]

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In Child labor in retail and service industry, Child Labor News, U.S. News Posted September 12, 2012

USA – Iowa: Peninsula Gaming penalized for child labor violations; pays back wages – GlobeGazette

DES MOINES — The U.S. Department of Labor has levied a $9,300 civil penalty against Dubuque-based Peninsula Gaming LLC after investigation by the department's Wage and Hour Division. According to [...]

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The International Initiative on Exploitative Child Labor (IIECL), also commonly known as the International Initiative to End Child Labor, is a US-based, not-for-profit [US IRS approved 501 (c) (3)] organization, incorporated in 1999. We conduct and/or provides education, training, technical assistance, capacity building, research, social accountability auditing, resources, and evaluation services to public and private institutions and agencies, non-governmental organizations, and international programmatic institutions that seek to eliminate the worst forms of child labor in the United States and around the world.

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