For five months he toiled on a central Pennsylvania farm from sunup to sundown six days a week building wooden shipping pallets and raising chickens. He wasn’t paid a cent. The young man said he went ...

SCRANTON, Penn. — The secretary of labor won summary judgment in a Pennsylvania federal court in its complaint against a Mennonite nonprofit that violated the Fair Labor Standards Act at its ...

A federal lawsuit filed this month claims boys and young men at a church-related farm business in Pennsylvania were subjected to forced labor and punishment that included dragging chains and breaking ...

Since at least 2011, parents of Mennonite boys and young men sent their sons to Liberty Ridge Farm in McAlisterville, Pa., where they would receive spiritual guidance, structure and a “closely ...

Two former residents of Liberty Ridge Farm in Juniata County filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Allentown alleging they did work for a trucking company, raised chickens, cattle and hogs; and ...