Fayette Janitorial Service LLC agreed to pay nearly $650,000 in civil penalties and the court-ordered mandate that it no longer employs minors.
A Tennessee-based sanitation company has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities in Iowa and Virginia.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC entered into a consent judgment, in which the company agrees to nearly $650,000 in civil penalties and the court-ordered mandate that it no longer employs minors. The February filing indicated federal investigators believed at least four children had still been working at one Iowa slaughterhouse as of Dec. 12.
U.S. law prohibits companies from employing people younger than 18 to work in meat processing plants because of the hazards.
And the executives are in jail? Right?
Oh, I can see how you might think that from having basic common sense. But actually, laws are only for poors.
The money will be given to the children, right?
Sure will, money will go to Israel, they buy bombs, bombs find children therefore money being given to children!
A fine is merely the cost of doing business.
If we want change, there needs to be jail time.
Half a million doesn’t seem like enough tbh
even assuming the truth of the idea that it’s good for children to have jobs, do they have to be cruelest and most grueling upton-sinclair ass jobs you can find? at least adults can drink after a long shift at the meat processing factory. kids should be working the register at a movie theater or something. also i can’t imagine a small child is as efficient at cleaning out vats of blood as an adult would be
It doesn’t specifically say who these children were, but they were likely migrants because the child labor issue is actually an immigration issue.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-labor-crisis
It’s always immigrant kids. Nobody should be surprised that the companies that are willing to illegally employ immigrants are also willing to violate other labor laws.
Allow these people (the adults, not kids) to become legally employed and this problem will be drastically reduced.
I work for a top 50 by population city here in the US and they’re hiring illegals left and right. They do it by bringing them in through a temp agency and then transferring them over to our books after six months.
There is no such thing as an illegal person. A business may have illegal hiring practices, though.
Once Trump gets in, and the “Freedom to be Poor” bill is passed than these damn woke liberals won’t be able to limit these children’s rights like this!
We’ll pass Poe’s Law too.
We’ll pass Poe’s Law too.
They’re gonna outlaw sarcasm?
Sarcasm is already illegal, idiot
thank you SO MUCH for educating me! I didn’t know ANY of that until you so graciously taught me!
