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 ...

Slaughterhouses Settle 3 Child Labor Cases With Feds Agribusiness giants Purdue Farms and JBS Foods, along with a slaughterhouse cleaning company, paid about $8.4 millions in fines for having ...

11 children worked 'dangerous' night shift at Iowa pork plant, investigators say For the second time, the U.S. Department of Labor has found children working for a sanitation contractor at an Iowa ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A sanitation contractor has been fined nearly $172,000 after federal authorities discovered that the company employed 11 children to do "dangerous work" at a pork processing ...