Meatpacking Companies to Pay $8 Million for U.S. Child Labor Violations
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 18, 2025
Perdue Farms and JBS, two of the country’s biggest meatpackers, will pay a combined $8 million after the Department of Labor found the companies relied for years on migrant children to work in their slaughterhouses.
The deals, announced this week, are part of a flurry of child labor settlements that have come in the last days of the Biden administration, which has been cracking down on the practice.
It is rare for major brands to come under federal scrutiny for child labor . . .
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