Fayette Janitorial Service LLC agreed to pay nearly $650,000 in civil penalties and the court-ordered mandate that it no longer employs minors.
A Tennessee-based sanitation company has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities in Iowa and Virginia.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC entered into a consent judgment, in which the company agrees to nearly $650,000 in civil penalties and the court-ordered mandate that it no longer employs minors. The February filing indicated federal investigators believed at least four children had still been working at one Iowa slaughterhouse as of Dec. 12.
U.S. law prohibits companies from employing people younger than 18 to work in meat processing plants because of the hazards.
And the executives are in jail? Right?
Oh, I can see how you might think that from having basic common sense. But actually, laws are only for poors.
Only if they didn’t give a cut to the regulators. This isn’t a fine. It’s payment so the regulators look the other way.
It’s cheaper for them to break the law and pay a “fine” then to go about things legitimately.
It’s the cost of doing business.
Capitalism at it’s finest.