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Paid fines indicate meat industry's use of child labor is more widespread than previously known
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Paid fines indicate meat industry's use of child labor is more widespread than previously known

ByEyes on Trafficking News

If Homeland Security is investigating the meat industry for human trafficking as was reported, it could be a long time before anything specific about that is known. But the Labor Department has now imposed monetary penalties totaling $1.5 million on a labor contractor who placed more than 100 children into hazardous meat industry jobs. Those…

Food sanitation company fined for illegally employing children across U.S.
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Food sanitation company fined for illegally employing children across U.S.

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Packers Sanitation Services, a food sanitation contractor, has been fined $1.5 million by the U.S. Department of Labor for illegally employing over 100 children in meat processing facilities across eight states, including facilities belonging to some of the largest distributors in the country, such as Tyson Foods, JBS Foods, and Cargill. The department found that…

Officials Allege Illegal Child Labor at JBS Slaughterhouses – PETA
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Officials Allege Illegal Child Labor at JBS Slaughterhouses – PETA

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Warning: images of animal processing BREAKING: Federal officials found that at least 31 children as young as 13 were allegedly employed illegally as night sanitation workers at slaughterhouses in the Midwest—including JBS Foods slaughterhouses in Grand Island, Nebraska, and Worthington, Minnesota. The children were allegedly working in hazardous conditions. Investigators found that some worked at…

Federal government investigating possible human trafficking of children who cleaned slaughterhouses
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Federal government investigating possible human trafficking of children who cleaned slaughterhouses

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Federal investigators are looking into whether 50 children — some as young as 13 — who were allegedly illegally employed cleaning Midwestern slaughterhouses were victims of labor trafficking, three officials from the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News. Homeland Security Investigations agents have interviewed children who worked cleaning a JBS Foods slaughterhouse in Grand…

Homeland Security probes potential child trafficking at JBS slaughterhouses, NBC reports
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Homeland Security probes potential child trafficking at JBS slaughterhouses, NBC reports

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is investigating whether children who were illegally employed as night sanitation workers at slaughterhouses in the Midwest are victims of human trafficking, according to officials cited by NBC News. DHS officials told NBC the department is not investigating the company that hired the children, Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI)….

Federal government investigating possible trafficking of children who cleaned Grand Island slaughterhouse
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Federal government investigating possible trafficking of children who cleaned Grand Island slaughterhouse

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GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (NBC News) – Federal investigators are looking into whether 50 children — some as young as 13 — who were allegedly illegally employed cleaning Midwestern slaughterhouses were victims of labor trafficking, three officials from the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News. Homeland Security Investigations agents have interviewed children who worked cleaning…