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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