An Alabama poultry processor will pay $385,000 to the Department of Labor for illegally employing children as young as 13 years old to perform hazardous tasks.
Mar-Jac Poultry AL LLC will pay the civil penalties after the DOL obtained a consent judgment in the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama for the company’s violations of child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the agency announced.
DOL investigators discovered Mar-Jac employed workers between the ages of 14 and 15-years-old to operate forklifts, debone and eviscerate chickens, and work on the kill floor. Among the requirements of ...
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