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

📆 07/05/2024 06.31.00
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A Tennessee-based sanitation company is agreeing to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities. The U.S. Labor Department on Monday said Fayette Janitorial Service LLC has agreed to nearly $650,000 in civil penalties.

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.

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

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