U.S. company fined $650,000 for illegally hiring children to clean meat processing plants

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DES MOINES, Iowa — A Tennessee-based sanitation company has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities in Iowa and Virginia. The U.S.

, across 13 meatpacking plants. paid over $1.5 million in civil penalties. The Labor Department’s latest statistics indicate the number of children being employed illegally in the U.S. has increased 88% since 2019.

 

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