A Tennessee-based janitorial company has been fined $649,000 after a Department of Labor (DOL) investigation found that it had employed at least 24 children — some as young as 13 — to work overnight shifts in two separate slaughter facilities. “The employment of children in hazardous occupations is an egregious violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act that should never occur…
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