A food-safety sanitation company was fined $1.5 million by the U.S. Department of Labor for employing more than 100 children in dangerous jobs including cleaning 'razor-sharp saws.'
A food-safety sanitation company was fined $1.5 million by the U.S. Department of Labor for employing more than 100 children — some as young as 13 — in dangerous jobs including cleaning"razor-sharp saws" with"caustic chemicals."
"These children should never have been employed in meat packing plants and this can only happen when employers do not take responsibility to prevent child labor violations from occurring in the first place," said Jessica Looman, principal deputy administrator of the agency's Wage and Hour Division, in a statement.
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