{"id":324571,"date":"2026-11-10T02:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324571\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T02:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:02:11","slug":"pennsylvania-settles-7-8-million-child-labor-case-with-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324571\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania settles $7.8 million child labor case with Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/ee3b9e0b-c62f-4d02-923c-95c976d19fe9\" aria-label=\"Tasmin Mahfuz profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ee3b9e0b-c62f-4d02-923c-95c976d19fe9_1718896865.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Tasmin Mahfuz\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The Shapiro administration announced a $7.8 million settlement with Walmart over violations of Pennsylvania&#8217;s Child Labor Act, describing it as the largest child labor enforcement action in state history.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry began investigating Walmart in February 2025 after receiving reports of minors being injured while working at its stores. Investigators conducted 10 audits at eight Walmart locations across the state, uncovering an average of 65 child labor violations per audit.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The violations included failing to provide minor employees with legally required breaks and allowing minors to work more hours than permitted by law.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">In addition to the financial penalties, the settlement agreement includes measures aimed at preventing future violations, such as manager training on Pennsylvania&#8217;s child labor laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Shapiro administration announced a $7.8 million settlement with Walmart over violations of Pennsylvania&#8217;s Child Labor Act, describing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131431,131436,131427,131429,131428,131438,131435,1396,64521,131430,131433,131432,28,12998,30,29,131439,8991,74295,131434,23258,131437],"class_list":["post-324571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-7-8-million","tag-break-violations","tag-child-labor","tag-child-labor-act","tag-child-labor-violations","tag-eight-locations","tag-february-2025","tag-industry","tag-labor-law","tag-labor-settlement","tag-manager-training","tag-minor-employees","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-department-of-labor","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-stores","tag-shapiro-administration","tag-state-history","tag-store-audits","tag-walmart","tag-work-hours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}