One of the nation’s largest food safety sanitation services providers has paid just over $1.5 million in civil money penalties after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the company employed at least 102 children – from 13 to 17 years of age – in hazardous occupations and had them working overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states.
The employer’s payment of civil money penalties is the result of the division’s investigation of Packers Sanitation Services Inc. LTD (PSSI), based in Kieler, Wisconsin. The division found that children…
