Slaughterhouse Children

Most recent stories in Slaughterhouse Children

• 

  NBC News

  

  Workers for slaughterhouse cleaning firm repeatedly used stolen identities to get jobs

  NBC News - By Laura Strickler, Didi Martinez and Julia Ainsley

  Ex-managers, police and people who said their identities were stolen told NBC News that workers for PSSI used stolen identities to get hired. Workers for a company recently found to have hired more than 100 children to clean slaughterhouses have repeatedly used stolen identities to get hired, …

• 

  NBC News

  

  Company fined for child labor replaces CEO, launches fund to fight child labor

  NBC News - By Laura Strickler

  A Labor Department investigation found more than 100 children illegally working dangerous jobs for PSSI cleaning slaughterhouses in 13 locations across eight states. Packers Sanitation Services Inc. has appointed a new CEO amid fallout from a Labor Department investigation that found more than 100 …

• 

  NBC News

  

  Company hired same child twice to clean slaughterhouses, internal document shows

  NBC News - By Laura Strickler, Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez

  An internal company report shows Packers Sanitation Services Inc. disciplined an employee who hired the same “known minor” twice under two different identities. A company that the Labor Department says used more than 100 children to clean slaughterhouses hired the same child twice under different …

• 

  NBC News

  

  Feds say more than 100 children worked for slaughterhouse cleaning firm

  NBC News - By Laura Strickler and Julia Ainsley

  Packers Sanitation Services Inc. paid $1.5 million in fines after the Labor Department found minors using chemicals to clean saws and equipment at 13 facilities in eight states The Labor Department said Friday it found 102 children as young as 13 working hazardous overnight jobs cleaning …

• 

  NBC News

  

  

  Food sanitation company accused of employing at least 31 children on graveyard shifts in slaughterhouses

  NBC News - By Julianne McShane

  Packers Sanitation Services, Inc., or PSSI, allegedly employed dozens of minors to clean killing floors and cutting machines in Nebraska and Minnesota, the Department of Labor said. A leading sanitation company is accused of employing dozens of children to clean the killing floors of slaughterhouses …