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Seven days a week. did you have trouble staying awake and learning >> translator: yes, it takes its toll it's very tiring also because of the sleepiness >> reporter: pedro works for packer san sagitation services , pssi they settled with the labor department after investigators uncovered 100 children working illegally. pssi pledged it'd no longer hire children and paid a $1.5 million fine, a tiny fraction of its revenues nationwide, children were fired at multiple pssi locations, according to some economy employees. but pedro is still on the job. a dangerous job. like other child workers, he t...

Tiny fraction of its revenues. nationwide children were fired at multiple pssi locations according to some company employees, but pedro is still on the job, a dangerous job. like other child workers, he told us he'd been severely burned from powerful cleaning chemicals. i noticed you were coughing. is that from the chemicals? [ speaking non-english ] >> translator: yes, it's because the chemicals are strong. >> reporter: pedro says he fled poverty in guatemala two years ago. he rely the on a smuggler to illegally cross the u.s. border who brought him here alone to find a job. he says he sends ...

The children are paid award wages to wash dishes, make jams and relishes and serve customers.

Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre (CWIN)

A company that provides workers to sanitize food processing plants paid a $1.5 million fine for illegally employing 102 children to clean meatpacking plants.