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SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for October 26, 2023 | SaltWire - Lawmakers introduced a pair of Senate bills on Thursday to combat the rising number of child labor violations in the United States, one targeting companies with federal contracts that employ children for more scrutiny and another increasing reporting requirements to Congress.
It would also require the Labor Department to compile a list of companies ineligible for federal contracts based on"serious, repeated, or pervasive violations of child labor laws." Another bipartisan Senate bill introduced on Thursday by Republican Marco Rubio from Florida, with Democrats Alex Padilla from California and John Hickenlooper from Colorado, and Republican Roger Marshall from Kansas, would require the Labor Department to report more details to lawmakers about the perpetrators and victims involved in child labor cases.
A February 2022 Reuters story exposed child labor at Alabama chicken plants, revealing how unaccompanied Central American migrants in debt to human smugglers were working grueling factory shifts. Later, in November, the Labor Department filed a complaint against cleaning company Packers Sanitation Services Inc. for employing dozens of kids cleaning meatpacking plants around the country, some of whom suffered chemical burns and other injuries.
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