Summary
The U.S. Labor Department announced three settlements this week addressing child labor violations in slaughterhouses.
QSI was fined $400,000 for employing 54 children on overnight shifts in 13 meatpacking plants across eight states.
Perdue Farms and JBS Foods each agreed to pay $4 million after similar violations.
These settlements are part of over 1,000 open child labor investigations nationwide.
The department emphasizes the responsibility of major meat companies and contractors to prevent hiring minors for hazardous jobs, which have led to injuries and fatalities.
$400K? What a joke. A drop in the bucket to most major companies. $400B, maybe.
400k / 54 =7.4k per kid per undisclosed time period of labor
Cheaper than real workers, the company came out ahead and will continue this practice indefinitely
How long before we stop hearing about these because the guy Trump puts in charge wont give a shit. I bet the number of immigrant children working in meat plants to double, and no one stopping it or fining the.
14 days.
Of course he’ll care! After you sell your first batch of ICE detainees children to the slaughter houses to earn their keep, you’ve got to advertise what a smashing success it was.
Yet another reason not to let US meat products into the EU
yet another reason to never purchase animal products.
As if labour abuses were limited to the meat industry or more common there than in “vegan industries” like agriculture.
This is rather “yet another reason” for proper labour laws and strong unions across the board.
