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Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5M for hiring minors to work in Colorado, other states
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Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5M for hiring minors to work in Colorado, other states

ByEyes on Trafficking News

By Steve Karnowski, The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — One of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs at 13 meatpacking plants across the country, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday as it announced over $1.5 million in civil penalties. The investigation into Packers Sanitation Services…

Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5 million for hiring minors across US
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Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5 million for hiring minors across US

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The Department of Labor says the company employed more than 100 children in jobs at 13 U.S. meatpacking plants, including George’s and Tyson in Arkansas. SPRINGDALE, Ark. — One of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs at 13 meatpacking plants across the country, the…

Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5M for employing over 100 children across US locations
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Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5M for employing over 100 children across US locations

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The U.S. Department of Labor announced Friday that Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. (PSSI), paid over $1.5 million in civil penalties after the company was discovered to have more than 100 children working in dangerous jobs at meatpacking plants across the country. PSSI, one of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies, started being…

Company that hired minors to clean skull-splitters and bone saws at meatpacking plants fined $1.5 million
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Company that hired minors to clean skull-splitters and bone saws at meatpacking plants fined $1.5 million

ByEyes on Trafficking News

One of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs at 13 meatpacking plants across the country, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday as it announced over $1.5 million in civil penalties. The investigation into Packers Sanitation Services Inc., or PSSI, began last summer. Department officials…

Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5M for hiring more than 100 children
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Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5M for hiring more than 100 children

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The Department of Labor says one of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs. MINNEAPOLIS — One of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs at 13 meatpacking plants across the country, the U.S. Department…

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

ByEyes on Trafficking 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 a JBS Foods slaughterhouse in Grand…