Federal investigations found 24 children, some as young as 13, doing “dangerous' work at slaughtering and meat packing facilities in Iowa and Virginia.
A cleaning company has agreed to pay more than $649,000 in civil penalties after federal investigators found it employed at least 24 children – some as young as 13 – at slaughtering and meat packing facilities, the U.S. Department of Labor said.
Seaboard Triumph Foods LLC and Perdue Farms did not immediately respond to a request for comment. On Feb. 27, the department obtained a preliminary injunction against Fayette Janitorial Service LLC in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa to stop the company’s illegal employment of children at its workplaces in more than 30 states. Fayette agreed to nationwide compliance six days after the department filed its motion for a temporary restraining order, the department said.
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