![]() Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account President Joe Biden’s administration announced plans to crack down on labor exploitation of migrant children across the country, the New York Times reported, following an investigation conducted by the newspaper into the explosive growth of migrant child labor throughout the country. In one of the largest child labor cases in history, Packers Sanitation Services this year paid $1.5 million in civil penalties for employing minors in hazardous occupations and having them working overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states owned by JBS, Cargill, Tyson and others. The department last year found that 835 companies it investigated had employed more than 3,800 children in violation of labor laws. Since 2018, the US Department of Labor has seen a 69% increase in children being employed illegally by companies. ![]() In March, Arkansas rolled back a number of child labor protections across the state, including a measure that had required employers to obtain work certificates for children under the age of 16.Ĭhild labor violations are also rapidly growing. But in the past two years, at least 14 states have introduced or passed laws rolling back child labor protections, the Economic Policy Institute reports. “Laws that lower the alcohol service age will subject more young people, at younger ages, to potentially dangerous working conditions at low wages - all in service of employers’ pursuit of cheap labor,” said Nina Mast, an economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, in the report.Įfforts to lower alcohol serving ages are part of a larger push to loosen child labor protections in states around the country.įederal laws providing minimum protections for child labor were enacted nearly a century ago. The restaurant industry already has the highest number of child labor law violations, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Millions of restaurant workers have left the industry in recent years over low wages and poor working conditions.īut lowering the minimum age to serve alcohol will put teenagers at risk of sexual harassment, underage drinking and other harms, labor experts warn. ![]() Daniel Acker/Bloomberg/Getty Imagesĭrive-thrus are creating problems for cities and townsĪround 80% of restaurant operators say they currently have job openings that are tough to fill, according to the National Restaurant Association. ![]() More cities are banning drive-thru development to become more walkable and curb greenhouse emissions.
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