The Wisconsin -based company entered into an agreement with the U.S. Labor Department, promising to hire an outside consultant to review its hiring policies and provide additional training for its managers.
By Josh Funk, Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge ordered a Wisconsin company that cleans hundreds of slaughterhouses nationwide to ensure it is complying with child labor laws after investigators identified at least 50 minors scrubbing and sanitizing dangerous equipment on overnight shifts at five different meatpacking plants in three states.
As part of an agreement with the Labor Department that was announced along with the Dec. 6 court ruling in Nebraska, Packers Sanitation Services Inc. also promised to hire an outside consultant to review its hiring policies and provide additional training for its managers.
Investigators with the Labor Department visited three plants owned by JBS and Turkey Valley Farms in Nebraska and Minnesota in the fall and found 31 underage workers as young as 13. Since this lawsuit was filed in November, additional underage workers have been identified, including at two additional plants: the Greater Omaha Packing Co. beef plant in Omaha, Nebraska, and a George's Inc. poultry plant in Springdale, Arkansas.
Investigators also searched a Tyson Foods plant in Sedalia, Missouri, but the Labor Department hasn't identified any minors working there yet.
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