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The 16-year-old worker killed in a Mississippi poultry plant earlier this month is the third teenager to die in a workplace accident so far this summer. Police and coroners reports

Anyone working a minimum wage job in Oregon will soon see a little more money in their pocket.

The owner of a Peachtree City, Georgia, auto repair shop who paid a former employee's final wages with 91,500 oil-soaked pennies has been ordered to pay nearly $40,000 more to nine of his workers.

Isidro Arellano thought hed found a good thing when recruiters showed up at Mexicos Universidad Tecnologica de Torreon looking for engineers interested in career-enhancing jobs in the auto industry in the U.S. South.What the 26-year-old said he got instead was a job lugging steering columns and installing bumpers, logging 60-hour-plus weeks at a Kia assembly line in West Point, Ga.

A 17-year-old was hurt driving a forklift on the night shift at a recently-acquired WL Plastics plant in Pennsylvania.

Three San Diego-area companies that authorities say underpaid their Mexican employees have agreed to pay more than $1.5 million in back wages and damages.

After three hours of testimonies, a federal judge is considering whether to detain a pizza chain owner accused of abusing undocumented workers.

A meatpacking sanitation firm, Packers Sanitation Services, has been fined $1.5 million for employing more than 102 children between the ages of 13 and 17 to clean meat plants with hazardous chemicals. The US Department of Labor said the sanitation firm violated child labor law by hiring minors across eight states to work in meatpacking plants,

Federal investigators found that C Salt Gourmet Market LLC did not pay some workers their full wages and allowed minors to perform hazardous jobs and work more hours than allowed by law.

Urgent Home Care Inc. was fined $521,905 by a court in Arizona.