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Poultry enterprise in California to pay $4.8M after employing children to work with sharp knives (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The wage settlement is one of the largest ever reached for U.S. poultry workers.

The owners and operators of a network of California poultry processors and distributors were ordered to pay $4.8 million in back wages and damages and to give up $1 million in profits after a Department of Labor investigation found the owners illegally employed children as young as 14 to work dangerous jobs.

The wage settlement is one of the largest ever reached for U.S. poultry workers, the DOL said in a statement.

The investigation by the department's Wage and House Division involving A1 Meat Solutions, JRC Culinary Group, Moon Poultry and five other businesses alleged that the enterprise employed children in dangerous conditions, including using sharp knives to debone poultry.

Additionally, investigators found the employers and their associates denied poultry workers and packers overtime wages and falsified payroll records to obstruct the probe, the DOL said. Supervisors at the employers' facilities also allegedly retaliated against workers once the investigation began in January 2024, calling them derogatory slurs and changing terms of employment, investigators said.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

I was so disgusted by this frankly piss-weak judgement that I tracked down the press release: https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20240502

The media contacts are: [email protected] and [email protected]

I sent them the following email:

I was absolutely disgusted to hear of the paltry fines issued to the network of poultry processors guilty of wage theft, falsifying records, obstructing the investigation and obvious child endangerment.

How can you possibly allow these bad actors to remain in business and find new ways to profit from risking children's lives and safety?

It's unconscionable that no jail time was mandated.

If this counts as a win, it only goes to show that the DOL is toothless and incapable of protecting American workers from predatory employers.