Cleaners accused of using children in Sioux City meat plant
Children under age 18 were tasked with cleaning power-driven machines such as meat and bone-cutting saws, headsplitters, jawpullers and skinners.
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Children under age 18 were tasked with cleaning power-driven machines such as meat and bone-cutting saws, headsplitters, jawpullers and skinners.
The Department of Labor issued a nationwide temporary restraining order and injunction against a Tennessee firm, accusing the company of hiring minors to work overnight shifts at slaughtering and meat packing plants, according to recent court filings.On Wednesday, the DOL claimed that Fayette Janito...
TROY — A Troy-based business that owns several local restaurants has been fined by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division for improperly employing minors.
Fayette Janitorial employed children to clean dangerous equipment at a Perdue Farms poultry plant in Virginia and a Seaboard Triumph Foods pork plant in Iowa.
Fayette Janitorial employed children to clean dangerous equipment at a Perdue Farms poultry plant in Virginia and a Seaboard Triumph Foods pork plant in Iowa.