DOL Reopens Comment Period on Adding Indian Carpets to Forced/Child Labor List

The Labor Department is extending the comment period on its proposal to add carpets from India to the “List of Products Requiring Federal Contractor Certification as to Forced or Indentured Child Labor” (the EO List), until July 15, DOL said (here). DOL received three comments during the initial comment period, which opened in 2014, and DOL and the departments of State and Homeland Security received 19 more comments after the period expired. In determining whether a product should be added to the EO list, officials consider the nature of information describing the use of forced or indentured child labor, the source of the information, date of the information, level of corroboration of the information by “appropriate sources,” how many incidents the information covered, and “whether recent and credible efforts are being made to address forced or indentured child labor in a particular country or industry.”