Packers Sanitation Services Inc

Child labor continues to fuel America’s big meat businesses

Another contract cleaning service for the food sector, especially the meat industry, has been caught with child labor violations. The frequency of child labor in the industry surfaced last year

By News Desk

/ 23 Feb 2024

Child labor continues to fuel America’s big meat businesses

Food company violations of child labor laws appear to keep on coming

More child labor violations appear to be on the horizon for the regulated meat industry, Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods are reportedly under renewed federal scrutiny for possible illegal child

By Dan Flynn

/ 28 Sep 2023

Food company violations of child labor laws appear to keep on coming

Paid fines indicate meat industry’s use of child labor is more widespread than previously known

If Homeland Security is investigating the meat industry for human trafficking as was reported, it could be a long time before anything specific about that is known. But the Labor

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Feb 2023

Paid fines indicate meat industry’s use of child labor is more widespread than previously known

Department of Labor nabs another meat plant for child labor violations

Another meat processing plant, this one far distant from the first, has been found violating federal child labor laws by the U.S. Department of Labor. The latest violator is

By Dan Flynn

/ 16 Feb 2023

Department of Labor nabs another meat plant for child labor violations

Child labor case attracts Homeland’s attention for potential human trafficking

When federal Judge John M. Gerrard put his signature on a six-page Consent Order and Judgment on Dec. 6, 2022, it was a win for the U.S. Department of

By Dan Flynn

/ 24 Jan 2023

Child labor case attracts Homeland’s attention for potential human trafficking

Temporary Restraining Order extended in child labor case involving large meat company

A preliminary injunction that prevents a labor contracting firm from providing child labor to JBS in Grand Island, NE, has been extended to Dec. 7. The preliminary injunction is against

By Dan Flynn

/ 24 Nov 2022

Temporary Restraining Order extended in child labor case involving large meat company

Unlikely that child labor at JBS went un-noticed by world’s largest meat company

Children working overnight at the JBS meat packing plant in Grand Island, Nebraska were required to clock in and out of their shifts by entering their ID number into a

By Dan Flynn

/ 16 Nov 2022

Unlikely that child labor at JBS went un-noticed by world’s largest meat company

JBS caught using child labor for food safety services; contractor called into federal court

JBS S.A. — the Brazilian company that is the largest meat processing company in the world — has some key JBS USA food safety jobs to fill after being caught using

By Dan Flynn

/ 15 Nov 2022

JBS caught using child labor for food safety services; contractor called into federal court

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Packers Sanitation Services Inc

Child labor continues to fuel America’s big meat businesses

Food company violations of child labor laws appear to keep on coming

Paid fines indicate meat industry’s use of child labor is more widespread than previously known

Department of Labor nabs another meat plant for child labor violations

Child labor case attracts Homeland’s attention for potential human trafficking

Temporary Restraining Order extended in child labor case involving large meat company

Unlikely that child labor at JBS went un-noticed by world’s largest meat company

JBS caught using child labor for food safety services; contractor called into federal court

Your Support Protects Public Health