Fayette Janitorial LLC employed 15 children to clean dangerous equipment at a Perdue Farms plant in Virginia and nine to clean a Seaboard Triumph Foods pork plant in Iowa.

The Labor Department said that Tennessee-based Fayette Janitorial LLC illegally employed 15 children to clean a Perdue Farms poultry plant in Virginia and nine to clean a Seaboard Triumph Foods pork processing plant in Iowa. They cleaned such equipment as head splitters and meat bandsaws.

Fayette has 600 employees in 30 states, according to the company’s website.

Children under the age of 18 are not allowed to work in slaughterhouses because the work is considered by the federal government to be too dangerous.

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    English
    6•4 months ago

    I don’t even care about fines anymore. Just shut these places down and bar the owners/managers from managing a business for life.

    • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
      5•4 months ago

      The person that made the decisions and their bosses should be in jail at the very least.

        • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
          4•4 months ago

          I’m trying to puzzle out if this shit happened before the internet took off and no one really knew, or they were afraid to do this shit because they knew they would either go to jail, get shamed out of existence or whatever. It’s the knowing there will be no consequences and then there are no consequences all out in the open that’s kind of unbelievable. I think everyone is tired.