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The agreement with JBS follows a 2022 Labor Department investigation that found the company’s cleaning contractor employed 102 children, ages 13 to 17, at 13 meat processing facilities across ...
(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold five major technology companies liable over their alleged support for the use of child labor in cobalt mining operations in the ...
The Department of Labor has regularly reported on violations of child labor laws; the latest investigation is of a HelloFresh facility and a staffing agency in Illinois that reportedly hired ...
"In early 2023, American consumers were shocked to learn that children as young as 13 were working illegally in meatpacking plants throughout the U.S.," Reid Maki, Director of Child Labor Advocacy ...
Separately, Alabama's state Department of Labor fined SL Alabama and JK USA Inc., its temporary labor recruiting firm, $17,800 each for a total of $35,600. Property records show that the house where some underage workers lived alongside other SL employees is owned by a company registered under the name of the president of the recruiting firm. [1]
Photo of a minor cleaning a slaughterhouse in Grand Island, Nebraska.. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor showed that more than 100 children had been working illegally for Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI), a slaughterhouse cleaning firm owned by Blackstone Inc., an American alternative investment management company, across the United States.
There’s been a serious increase in child labor law violations in the US over the past few years. Well known companies, consumer-facing name brands, have been caught employing children for ...
The main law regulating child labor in the United States is the Fair Labor Standards Act.For non-agricultural jobs, children under 14 may not be employed, children between 14 and 16 may be employed in allowed occupations during limited hours, and children between 16 and 17 may be employed for unlimited hours in non-hazardous occupations. [2]