U.S. District Court of Nebraska

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.

ByEyes on Trafficking News

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…