Sens restores. Josh Hawley, R-MO. , Cory Boker, DN.J. Monday legislation would prevent companies from receiving federal contracts if serious, frequent or widespread violations of child labor laws are found.
Senators re-submitted the draft law before the assertion to be held on Monday evening for Lori Chavez-Tremer, a former member of the Republican Parliament from Oregon, which is the choice of President Donald Trump to work as a working minister.
Hawly and Booker legislation will require companies that seek to obtain federal contracts to disclose children’s work violations by the company or any subcontracting contractors during the previous three years. The Minister of Labor may also be required to collect a list of companies that are not qualified for federal contracts based on any violations.
“It is not necessary to reward companies that employ children illegally with the profitable federal government contracts that make companies millions,” Holi, Which sparked the fears of children’s work During the Chavez-Reder-Ameer confirmation session, he said in a statement. “This partisan legislation will hold companies responsible for participating in the exploitation of children’s work and ensuring the consequences of criminals rightly.”
The batch comes after a number of American companies were found Young teenagers work illegally And in dangerous functions, As investigations from NBC News and The New York Times found. Many of these children who were working illegally They were immigrants who were not accompanied Those who have entered the United States in recent years.
Companies Like Perdue Farms and JBS I had to pay the sanctions After illegally employing immigrant children in their slaughterhouses. Other American companies said they were Take steps to eliminate children’s work in their supply chain.
“At the present time in America, major companies are taking advantage of children in the workplace where federal law says they should not be in the first place,” Booker said in a statement. “Children clean dangerous machines in factories, deal with toxic chemicals, and make stressful transformations in meat treatment factories, and more, all in a flagrant violation of the law.”
He added: “Federal contracts should not be used to achieve profits for companies that continue to endanger our children’s safety and well -being.”
Last week, Hawly Feet Part of the two-party work legislation before Chavez-Dimer confirmed. The draft law calls for this first contract for new unions, and participates in its sponsorship by Boker and Sens. Gary Peters and D-Mich. Bernie Moreno, R-OHIO and Jeff Merkley, D-Or.
