A company was fined $1.5 million on USAwhich he used children and teenagers as workers and had them clean them slaughterhouses.
“These children they were working with dangerous chemicals and they were cleaning meat cutting toolssuch as chest saws and skull crushers,” the Ministry of Labor said in a statement.
As reported by the French Agency, it is about the company Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI), which based in Wisconsinwhich paid a fine of $1.5 million. In fact, it is one of the larger companies providing cleaning and hygiene services in the agri-food sectorwhile among its clients were the giants JBS, Cargill and Tyson Foods.
The company employed at least 102 minors (aged 13 to 17) in hazardous work. Children also worked at night in 13 meat processing plants in eight states and at least three of them were injured. And when auditors went to PSSI facilities to investigate, “the adults who hired and supervised the children tried to derail our efforts,” said Michael Lazzeri, the Department of Labor’s Chicago area manager.
This case is “not unique” since “we see many children working outside the legal framework“, she said Jessica Luman, a high-ranking official of the ministry, in a telephone press conference he granted. “We’ve seen an increase in violations of around 50% since 2018,” he explained.
Many states want to loosen child labor laws to help companies facing labor shortages. “State laws do not supersede or supersede federal law,” Luhmann said, stressing that employers should comply with laws that protect children and their employees.
Source: News Beast
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