#childexplotation — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pssi-hired-same-child-twice-clean-slaughterhouses-document-rcna71633 #ChildExplotation Company hired same ‘known minor’ twice to clean slaughterhouses, internal document shows
"There are things happening in the plant that adults aren’t comfortable seeing, you can’t walk through [the plant] without getting animal parts on you or blood all over you.” 

Shannon Rebolledo, a 17-year veteran of the Labor Department who led the investigation into PSSI’s use of child labor, said that she had “never seen child labor violations to this extent"

https://progressive.org/op-eds/labor-trafficking-happens-here-too-ditmore-230221/ #LaborTrafficking Happens Here Too. Meat-packing and chicken-processing plants have been sites of extreme exploitation that may meet the definition of trafficking. However, rather than address such exploitation, #MAGARepublicans in the state legislatures of Minnesota & Iowa have introduced bills to allow minors to work later hours and in more dangerous jobs #ChildLaborLaws #ChildExplotation #ImmigrantRights #HumanRights