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Feb 21 2024
03:41 pm
The Labor Department said that Tennessee-based Fayette Janitorial LLC illegally employed 15 children to clean a Perdue Farms poultry plant in Virginia and nine to clean a Seaboard Triumph Foods pork processing plant in Iowa. They cleaned such equipment as head splitters and meat bandsaws.
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Terrible
So did the Department of Labor do anything about this?! Please don't buy Perdue chicken. There is no excuse for this child slave labor.
Fayette Janitorial fined
Fayette Janitorial fined $650,000.
A federal judge on Monday approved a consent order finding that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC sent teens as young as 13 to scrub razor-edged machinery with high-powered hoses, scalding water and dangerous chemicals. The agreement requires Fayette Janitorial to hire a third-party consultant — who will be tasked with monitoring the company’s compliance with federal labor law — within 90 days. It also stipulates the company must establish a toll-free hotline number for people to anonymously report possible child labor violations to the consultant.
Fayette Janitorial is located in West Tennessee, Somerville.
Bah.
$650,000 is nothing. That was a horrible thing to do. Glad they have monitoring.