US company agrees to fine for hiring children to clean slaughterhouses
by The Guardian
The Guardian— US labor department announced that Fayette Janitorial Service agreed to $650,000 fine and mandate to no longer employ minors 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.The US labor department announced on Monday that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC entered into a consent judgment, in which the company...
Labor 411—Slaughterhouse cleaning company fined $649,000 for using children to “clean dangerous kill floor equipment, including head splitters, jaw pullers, bandsaws and neck clippers”. The following statement was issued by the Department of Labor on a case involving children being used as janitors in slaughterhouses. The Department of Labor has entered into a consent order and judgment, approved by a federal court in Iowa on May 6, 2024, with a Tennessee cleaning contractor that requires the employer to pay $649,304… Source
FOX News—Tennessee-based company fined $650K for illegally employing children to clean meat processing plants. 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. The U.S. Department of Labor announced 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. The February...
Fortune—Janitors hired to clean a meat plant operated by $11 billion Perdue Farms used children for the work, regulators said. The Labor Department’s latest statistics indicate the number of children being employed illegally in the U.S. has increased 88% since 2019.