Slaughterhouses Settle 3 Child Labor Cases With Feds
Agribusiness giants Purdue Farms and JBS Foods, along with a slaughterhouse cleaning company, paid about $8.4 millions in fines for having underaged workers in dangerous jobs.
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JBS USA Food agrees to help the Labor Department crack down on child labor
JBS USA Food Co., one of the nation's largest meatpacking processors and slaughterhouses, has agreed to a joint initiative ...
Meatpacking Companies to Pay $8 Million for U.S. Child Labor Violations
Perdue Farms and JBS have settled with the Labor Department after relying on migrant children to do dangerous work in their ...
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Department of Labor and JBS USA Food Co Reach Agreement
The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a $4 million agreement with JBS USA Food Co. to address and prevent unlawful child labor practices. The funds will support victims and affected communities ...
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JBS backs away from sustainability officer’s comments on emissions goals
JBS has been accused by Mighty Earth of renegading on its environmental commitments as opposition to a planned US listing ...
Exclusive-Brazilian meatpacker JBS says net-zero emissions pledge was 'never a promise'
By Stefanie Eschenbacher, Luciana Magalhaes and Simon Jessop SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The world's largest meatpacker, JBS, ...
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DOL Settles with Largest Meat Packing Processor Over Child Labor
The U.S. Department of Labor, on January 13, announced that it has entered into an agreement with JBS USA Food Co, the nation ...