Department of Labor Requires Federal Contractor Certification as to Use of Child Labor for More Products

July 21, 2010

The Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) has expanded the list of products requiring federal contract certification as to forced or indentured labor pursuant to Executive Order 13126. E.O. 13126 prohibits federal agencies from acquiring products on this list unless the federal contractor supplying the product certifies that they have made a good faith effort to determine that forced or indentured child labor was not used to mine, produce, or manufacture the covered product.

On July 20, 2010, the ILAB published an updated list of products, by country of origin, which the Departments of Labor, State and Homeland Security, have a reasonable basis to believe might have been mined, produced, or manufactured by forced or indentured child labor in the Federal Register. This is the first update to the list since it was initially created in January 2001. Effective immediately, when supply the government, federal contractors will now have to certify that they have made good faith efforts to determine that forced or indentured labor was not used to produce the following products from the specified countries: