Arkansas Labor

Striking workers at a Van Buren Tyson Foods plant say the company failed to protect them from on-the-job injury before laying them off.

Children under 16 would no longer need a permit or parental consent to work under a bill moving through the Arkansas Legislature.

A scrap metal production company has chosen northeast Arkansas to build one of two rebar steel mini mills.

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh announced funding from the department's Pathway Home grant program will help recently incarcerated adults re-enter the workforce.