A recent search of Mar-Jac Poultry’s facility in Alabama found several teenagers deboning poultry and cutting carcasses on its kill floor, in violation of federal labor laws, the Labor Department said in a court filing against the company on May 6.
It offered to pull all goods produced at the facility during the work shift that federal inspectors said they saw the minors working, but it argued that putting a freeze on all production at the plant would have “seismic economic consequences on the community.” The company last year had said that the child worker killed, Duvan Tomas Perez, “should not have been hired,” and that his age and identity were misrepresented on his hiring paperwork with an outside staffing company.
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