Greeley-based JBS USA agreed to $4 million settlement earlier in the week.
FILE – A worker heads into the JBS meatpacking plant Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, in Greeley, Colo. Meatpacking giant JBS has agreed to a $52.5 million settlement in a beef price-fixing lawsuit, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, that some say supports their concerns about how the lack of competition in the industry affects prices. Colorado-based JBS didn’t admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement and a spokeswoman said the company will continue to defend itself. OMAHA, Neb.
All three of these announcements come just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, but they follow a number of other child labor investigations in the meatpacking industry in the past few years.
“The Department of Labor is determined to stop our nation’s children from being endangered in jobs for which they should never be hired and to leverage our enforcement work to affect industries,” said Solicitor of Labor Seema Nanda.in civil penalties after a federal investigation found it illegally hired at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities in Iowa and Virginia.
Perdue was employing children at a Virginia plant using dangerous knives and other tools to slaughter chicken. That includes steps like training all managers about how to spot underage applicants and avoid hiring them. False identification documents continue to be a problem. Companies are also expected to require all of their subcontractors to take precautions.
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