The U.S. Labor Department says Perdue Farms will pay $4 million in restitution after it employed children in hazardous occupations in Virginia. The company also let children work past 7

The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into an agreement with Perdue Farms Inc. to address child labor violations at its Accomac, Virginia plant.

US poultry group Perdue Farms plans to permanently shut down a factory in Monterey, Tennessee, resulting in the loss of hundreds of jobs. The closure, slated for 28 March, follows a "thorough strategic business and financial review of the plant’s performance and its future viability",

Perdue Farms will pay $4 million in restitution after it employed children in hazardous occupations at a Virginia plant and let them work past 7 p.m. during the

Perdue Farms and a staffing agency will pay more than $4 million to settle claims that they employed children in hazardous jobs at a chicken processing facility in Virginia, the U.S. Department of Labor said on Wednesday.

Listen to this article Perdue Farms has agreed to pay $4 million in restitution to settle a federal investigation into alleged child labor violations at the company’s poultry processing plant on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

JBS USA and Perdue Farms will each pay $4 million for employing children through third-party staffing agencies, officials announced this week.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has reached agreements with Perdue Farms Inc. and staffing agency SMX LLC to resolve child labor violations at a poultry processing facility in Accomac, Virginia.

In a separate consent judgment entered in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Norfolk, Staff Management Solutions agreed to pay a $125,000 civil money penalty and to be permanently enjoined from future FLSA child labor violations in meat processing and packing industries.

Perdue Farms and a staffing agency have reached agreements with the Labor Department over child labor violations found at the poultry giant’s Accomac, Virginia, facility.

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