A new letter from the U.S. Department of Labor says an Iowa law passed earlier this year to ease child labor restrictions in the state conflicts with federal law, putting young Iowans at risk in ...

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES, WORKERS AT TWO MEATPACKING PLANTS IN IOWA WILL HAVE A PENSION PLAN. IT’S PART OF A NEW CONTRACT BETWEEN JBS AND AMERICAN LABOR UNION. IT COVERS 14 FACILITIES ...

The two-unit plant, located in Cordova, Illinois, is operated by Constellation Energy. The first event involved a Unit 1 scram caused by a degraded condition on a Unit 2 battery. A scram refers to ...

The Labor Department has cut back on the inflation data it collects because of the Trump administration’s government hiring freeze, raising concerns among economists about the quality of the ...

A former jail official in Massachusetts has been arrested on extortion charges, according to prosecutors. Saad Chaudhry via Unsplash A former Massachusetts jail official is accused of forcing ...

WASHINGTON — Despite rising child labor violations and new Senate demands ... claimed to have seen underage workers at a processing plant employed by a third-party contracting service, as ...

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JBS USA said it would spend $135 million to build a sausage plant in Perry, Iowa, as rising pork demand fuels sales ... of ties to deforestation, child labor and other corporate violations.

A controversial 2023 law made a number of changes to loosen child labor restrictions in Iowa, allowing longer working hours and jobs that were previously prohibited. After signing the labor ...