A US company is fined $650,000 for illegally hiring children to clean meat processing plants

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U.S. law prohibits companies from employing people younger than 18 to work in meat processing plants because of the hazards.

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 inannounced Monday that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC entered into a consent judgment, in which the company agrees to nearly $650,000 in civil penalties and the court-ordered mandate that it no longer employs minors.

Perdue Farms and Seaboard Triumph Foods said in February they terminated their contracts with Fayette. A spokesperson for Fayette told The Associated Press in February that the company was cooperating with the investigation and has a “zero-tolerance policy for minor labor.”

 

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