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Sanitation Firm Fined $650K For Employing Minors At Meatpacking Plants
A Tennessee-based sanitation company has agreed to pay nearly $650,000 in fines for illegally employing minors in hazardous jobs at meatpacking facilities.
The Department of Labor investigation revealed Fayette Janitorial sent minors as young as 13 to work overnight in slaughterhouses.
The company engaged them in cleaning activities involving sharp machinery and dangerous chemicals.
A federal judge has approved a consent order.
This requires the company to appoint a third-party consultant to ensure compliance with federal labor laws.
It must also establish a hotline for reporting child labor violations.
The probe into Fayette Janitorial began after suspicious activity was noted at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.
Investigators spent weeks surveilling a Seaboard Triumph Foods facility in Iowa and a Perdue Farms plant in Virginia.
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