U.S. company fined for hiring kids to clean meatpacking plants

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A major food safety sanitation company has paid $1.5 million in penalties for employing more than 100 teenagers in dangerous jobs at meatpacking plants in eight states, the U.S. Department of Labor said on Friday.

Packers Sanitation Services Inc allowed at least 102 children between 13 and 17 years old to work overnight shifts and use hazardous chemicals to clean dangerous meat processing equipment such as brisket saws and "head splitters" used to kill animals.Federal labor law prohibits children under 18 from working in meatpacking plants and bars minors from working past 9 p.m. in the summer and 7 p.m. during the school year.

The largest penalties against Packers stemmed from its contracts at JBS USA plants in Nebraska and Minnesota and a Cargill Inc plant in Kansas. The Labor Department did not accuse JBS

 

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Maybe the employer thought that if they're old enough to transition, they are old enough to work.

Actual, non-paywall version of this story. Sorry, Reuters, but this story was not at your link at all…

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Looks like unemployment rose by at least 102 this month

Democrat ran city?

Poor workers , children &women are still exploited in American and European countries for profiteering. Immigrants working on zero hours contract- the modern slavery in its worst form. Absolutely unacceptable tactics by any company.

Yes kids, you gotta be at least 18 to be around blood and guts!

The toxic fruits of Reaganism.

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