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 Department has now imposed monetary
Continue Reading Paid fines indicate meat industry’s use of child labor is more widespread than previously known
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 Marksbury Farm Foods LLC – a
Continue Reading Department of Labor nabs another meat plant for child labor violations
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 Labor in a child labor case
Continue Reading Child labor case attracts Homeland’s attention for potential human trafficking
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 Wisconsin-based Packers Sanitation Services Inc.
Continue Reading Temporary Restraining Order extended in child labor case involving large 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 biometric time lock. The time
Continue Reading Unlikely that child labor at JBS went un-noticed by world’s largest meat company
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 child contractors for overnight
Continue Reading JBS caught using child labor for food safety services; contractor called into federal court