Labor dept. accuses food sanitation company of using child labor, giving them dangerous jobs – IOTW Report

Labor dept. accuses food sanitation company of using child labor, giving them dangerous jobs

BPR: The Department of Labor has requested a nationwide temporary restraining order and injunction against “one of the nation’s leading providers of food safety sanitation” because of the company’s reported habit of hiring extremely young children to perform adult labor.

Filed in court on Wednesday, the request against Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI) was prompted by an investigation that found the company has “employed at least 31 children – from 13 to 17 years of age – in hazardous occupations,” according to a DOL press release.

“The jobs performed by children included cleaning dangerous powered equipment during overnight shifts to fulfill sanitation contracts at JBS USA plants in Grand Island, Nebraska and Worthington, Minnesota, and at Turkey Valley Farms in Marshall, Minnesota,” the press release reads.

DOL investigators also discovered evidence that several of PSSI’s extremely young employees suffered injuries on the job, that PSSI has been trying to intimidate its underage workers into not cooperating with DOL investigators, and that PSSI “deleted and manipulated employment files” to hide its illegal actions. MORE

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