Federal officials say more than 100 children worked in dangerous jobs for slaughterhouse cleaning firm

Packers Sanitation Services Inc. paid $1.5 million in fines after the Labor Department found minors using chemicals to clean saws and equipment at 13 facilities in eight states

The compliance specialist will conduct child labor audits, which will be shared with the Labor Department for three years.

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The #DepartmentOfLabor has sued #PackersSanitationServicesInc which cleans #MeatPacking “kill floor” for #JBSFoods because #PSSI allegedly employed around 40 mostly-Spanish speaking children as young as 13 to perform hazardous work overnight in violation of #ChildLabor laws in a Grand Island, NE meat packing plant. #LULAC #Nebraska #NE #GrandIsland https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OPA/newsreleases/2022/11/SOLWHDPSSI%20FILINGS.pdf