Firm to pay $649,000 for hiring children at packing plants
The U.S. Department of Labor in February filed a complaint in federal court in Sioux City accusing Fayette Janitorial Service of employing at least nine children on its overnight sanitation
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The U.S. Department of Labor in February filed a complaint in federal court in Sioux City accusing Fayette Janitorial Service of employing at least nine children on its overnight sanitation
SIOUX CITY — A Tennessee-based cleaning company accused of employing child workers to clean equipment at a Sioux City meatpacking plant has agreed to refrain from hiring children.
The U.S. Department of Labor is alleging that a janitorial company has been using children as young as 14 years old to clean an Iowa slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant. Fayette
The Labor Department asked a federal judge for an injunction to halt the employment of minors by Tennessee-based Fayette Janitorial Service LLC, saying it believes at least four children were still working at one Iowa slaughterhouse — Seaboard Triumph Foods — as of Dec. 12.
The U.S. Department of Labor is alleging child labor violations by a janitorial company working in an Iowa slaughterhouse and packing plant.