Parents Who Locked Adopted Children in Barn, Forced Them to Work 'as Slaves' Convicted of Human Trafficking
The West Virginia couple, who is White, were accused of severely neglecting and mistreating their five adopted Black children ...
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Child labor in slaughterhouses spotlighted by 3 settlements this week
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 ...
USA Today28d
Meatpacking giants to pay $8 million for child labor violations
The children were hired through Staff Management Solutions, which was fined $125,000 for the child labor allegations, according to the Labor Department. The agreement with JBS USA, based in ...
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Perdue Farms agrees to $4M settlement in child labor probe
Perdue Farms has agreed to pay $4 million in restitution to settle a federal investigation into alleged child labor violations at the company’s poultry processing plant on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. In ...
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Labor Department puts spotlight on child labor in slaughterhouses with 3 settlements this week
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 ...
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child labor
The U.S. government found child labor violations involving over 3,800 minors in 2022. At the same time, some states say there is too much regulation of child labor. Katherine Walts, director of ...