Food safety company pays $1.5 million fine for hiring minors to clean meatpacking plants

摘要

A leading food safety company has paid $1.5 million in penalties for employing more than 100 children to clean meatpacking plants, such as JBS and Cargill. The Department of Labor (DOL) says Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI) employed minors to clean razorsharp saws and use hazardous chemicals at 13 meat processing facilities across eight states.