Items Tagged with 'child labor'

JBS has agreed to pay $4 million to child labor victims and organizations working to combat the practice under a deal announced by the Labor Department on Monday.

Members of the House Agriculture Committee heard from a meat processing industry representative and a labor law expert Wednesday in a closed meeting on the use of child labor in meatpacking plants.

Members of a network of California poultry processors and distributors have agreed to pay $4.8 million in back wages and damages and give up $1 million in profits after a Labor Department investigation found child labor and wage violations.

A Labor Department investigation has found at least two teenagers — one 16 years old and the other 17 — operating meat-processing equipment in violation of federal child labor orders at Monogram Meat Snacks LLC in Chandler, Minnesota.