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By Monica Showalter Now that the New York Times's dramatic expose about the huge surge in migrant child labor at slaughterhouses, chemical factories, construction sites, and chicken processing plants is out, 60 Minutes has decided to do its own version of the story this time rewriting the da ....
A slaughterhouse cleaning company hired 102 children in violation of the law to help sanitize dangerous equipment. Scott Pelley reports on how the hiring went wrong. ....
Says the more common outcome was to hold the frontline worker accountable. you would just terminate the child, terminate the undocumented worker. reporter: in december, the company signed a consent decree saying they would abide by child labor laws. pssi telling nbc news, our company has a strong corporate commitment to our zero-tolerance policy against employing anyone under the age of 18 and fully shares the labor department s objective of ensuring full compliance at all locations, and says they are taking steps to prevent individuals at the local level from circumventing our wide-ranging procedures. shannon rebolledo was the lead investigator for the labor department. how is this investigation different from what you ve seen before? i ve never seen child labor violations to this extent. just the sheer number of kids that were working, i ve never had an employer or their representative impede my investigation like this just so brazenly. ....