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A poultry plant in Alabama is accused of hiring minors, a lawsuit from the US Department of Labour has said. Mar-Jac Poultry allegedly hired four minors as young as 16
Four minors were allegedly found working at an Alabama slaughterhouse run by the same firm found responsible for the death of a Mississippi 16-year-old in 2023.
Mar-Jac Poultry denied it knowingly hired minors for its plant. However, it also saw the death of a Guatemalan teenager in a Mississippi plant last year
The U.S. Labor Department has fined a Park Hills vegetable operation more than $500,000 after an investigation found the company didn't pay workers proper overtime rates.
Duvan Perez, 16, was working illegally in the Mississippi chicken slaughterhouse when he was sucked into a deboning machine in July. The minimum age to work in meat processing is 18.