The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), through its Ilocos Regional Office, takes stronger steps toward a ...

The United States said Wednesday it would provide $5.5 million to the Philippines to help combat the use of child labor. The initiative seeks to remove 18,000 children from hazardous work sites and ...

The number of working children aged 5-17 fell to 861,000 in 2024, continuing a three-year decline. Child labor engagement ...

Members of the DOLE-7 Regional Council Against Child Labor, parents and partner stakeholders sign a pledge of commitment during an information and service caravan on Nov. 22, 2025. (PIA7) For Noreen ...

BINALONAN, Pangasinan (PIA) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), leading the Philippine Program Against Child ...

The Marcos administration has set quite an ambitious target to eradicate child labor, particularly in the fishing and aquaculture sectors, within three years. The good news is, the number of working ...

COTABATO CITY — Regional officials, employers, and representatives from the labor and business sectors across the Bangsamoro region have crafted resolutions committing them to cooperate on special ...

As child labor laws loosen across states, putting more kids to work, violations are simultaneously increasing. If you’re thinking of hiring workers who are under 18, businesses need to understand the ...

YOU'VE seen them in the novels of Charles Dickens and the proletarian novelists of 1930s America, books that deal with child laborers in the factories and fields. Harnessing child labor prevents them ...