Another Minnesota meatpacking plant faces child labor claims, will pay $2M

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Source: Red Lake Nation News / Redby, MN

Nov 15, 2024


A St. James meat-processing plant not far from similar southern Minnesota plants owned by companies penalized last year for violating child labor laws has been fined $2 million for allegedly illegally employing teenagers in dangerous, late-night jobs.

According to allegations disclosed by the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry on Thursday, the Smithfield plant employed 11 minors between the ages of 14 and 17, often working into the evening and overnight with hazardous machinery, meat grinders and near chemicals, in violation of state child labor laws.

Smithfield Packaging Meats Corp., a subsidiary of Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, did not agree with the allegations, which are contained in a consent order filed with the Watonwan County courthouse.

Nevertheless, the company will pay $2 million in an administrative penalty in terms disclosed by a consent order with the MDLI.

Read more: https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2024/11/15/business/another-minnesota-meatpacking-plant-faces-child-labor-claims-will-pay-2m/127031.html

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Link to MDLI PRESS RELEASE - DLI investigation finds Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. illegally employed minor children, company will pay $2 million penalty

[cbabe]

1. Who owns Smithfields?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield_Foods

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Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion.[9][10] It was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company to date.[11] The acquisition of Smithfield's 146,000 acres of land made WH Group, headquartered in Luohe, Henan province, one of the largest overseas owners of American farmland.

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4. So, these foods are produced and processed here in the U.S.,

but the companies are foreign owned. Hmmm... wonder how this squares with t's tariffs. We don't import, but they sure aren't American! Does he plan on kicking out all the foreign-owned businesses here in the U.S. and give ownership to the mega movers here?

[NotHardly]

2. Chump change penalty ... a flash in the pan for mega-billionaire company

[FredGarvin]

3. Chinese owned multibillion corporation

2 million.

That's a days sales profit

[Javaman]

5. get used to this. once the undocumented are deported, the corps gotta find warm bodies somewhere.nt