Company fined $1.5 million for hiring children to clean meatpacking plants

Trays of beef are seen at a Virginia supermarket in June 2022. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

At least three minors suffered injuries while cleaning slaughterhouses, including a chemical burn to the face, the Washington PostThe minors worked overnight shifts and used caustic chemicals to "clean razor-sharp saws" and other high-risk equipment, the Labor Department said.

This is what you get when Republicans 'roll back red tape'. Higher profits and worker injuries.

Seems a ludicrously small fine for such systemic abuse of children.

Corporate greed is unchecked in America.

Capitalism at its finest!

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