Items Tagged with 'child labor'

Investigation discovers children illegally employed on overnight sanitation shifts at 13 meat and poultry processing facilities.

Perdue Farms is set to pay $4 million in restitution.

JBS holds key elements of its supply chain, third-party contractors and service providers accountable for illegal child labor.

DOL finds second sanitation contractor at a Seaboard Triumph Foods facility employed children to perform dangerous work at its pork processing plant.

Smithfield Foods responds to settlement with Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry, noting prevalence of identity theft, fraud in U.S. labor force.

Judgment orders a City of Industry meat processor and Downey staffing agency to surrender $327,484 in illegal profits.

Federal court in Los Angeles finds the owners and operators of a network of California poultry processors and distributors must pay back wages and damages to 476 workers.

The Meat Institute works to educate member companies to improve age and identity verification.

Investigators discover Fayette Janitorial Service employed children to clean and sanitize spaces and equipment during overnight shifts to fulfill sanitation contracts.

The department is seeking any current or former employees of The Exclusive Poultry, Meza Poultry, Valtierra Poultry, Sullon Poultry or Nollus’s Poultry who believe they may be owed back wages.