In a spate of ongoing investigations has revealed Child workers found throughout Hyundai-Kia supply chain in Alabama after others were found working in chicken processing plants.

It seems that Alabama wasn't the only state using child labour.

Slaughterhouse Cleaning Firm Fined After Officials Say More Than 100 Children Worked Dangerous Jobs.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has fined one of the nation's largest food safety sanitation services providers for illegally employing more than 100 children to work under dangerous conditions.

After beginning their investigation in August 2022, the DOL said in a statement issued this week that they found Wisconsin-based Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI) had 102 children ages 13 to 17 operating hazardous chemicals and cleaning meat processing equipment such as back saws, brisket saws and head splitters.

Working throughout 13 facilities across Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Tennessee and Texas, three of the children employed suffered injuries while working for PSSI, the DOL said.

"The child labor violations in this case were systemic and reached across eight states, and clearly indicate a corporate-wide failure by Packers Sanitation Services at all levels," Principal Deputy Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, Jessica Looman, said in the statement. "These children should never have been employed in meat packing plants, and this can only happen when employers do not take responsibility to prevent child labor violations from occurring in the first place."....

It's also alive again in Arkansas, by law. :-O

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs bill making it easier to violate child labor laws.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) signed a bill into law on Tuesday that would roll back child labor protections in the state as Republicans across the country wage a campaign to make it easier for employers to violate child labor laws.

The law eliminates the requirement for children under 16 to show documentation of their age in order to work. Before this, employers seeking to employ a 14- or 15-year-old child had to obtain a permit showing the child's age.

The Republican-sponsored bill was passed by the state legislature last week. Republicans like Sanders claim that the permit system, which dates back to the early 1900s, is an unnecessary burden on employers and — in Sanders's words — "obsolete" in modern times.

The bill signing comes just after federal officials and explosive reporting uncovered that illegal child labor is alive and well in the U.S. In February, the Department of Labor issued a $1.5 million fine to Blackstone-owned Packers Sanitation Services for illegally employing over 100 children, some as young as 13, to clean slaughterhouses in eight states, including at least 10 children in Arkansas....