The meat processor refuted claims of “knowingly” hiring minors and agreed to settle the matter to avoid “the distraction of ...

One of the nation’s largest meat processors has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations of child labor violations at ...

Meat processing giant Smithfield will pay a $2 million penalty to resolve a child labor compliance order with the Minnesota ...

Smithfield Foods has agreed to a $2 million settlement to resolve allegations of child labor law violations at its plant in ...

The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry says Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp., which operates a plant in St. James, ...

The plant is the latest in a litany of southern Minnesota towns, from Madelia to Marshall to Worthington, to face allegations ...

Shocking but true: many everyday items like laptops may be produced using child labor and forced labor. Recognizing the dark ...

It has resulted into unsustainable conjugal life, premature birth, gender and sexual violence, child labour, and human ...

The Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) says Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. employed at least 11 children ages 14-17 at ...

Investigators found young workers in hazardous occupations at Pizza Parlor and working longer and later than the law allows.

Combating unlawful child labor in Minnesota is a priority for DLI and it will continue to devote resources to addressing and resolving these violations,” Minnesota DLI Commissioner Nicole Blissenbach ...

A meatpacking company will pay a $2 million penalty, after reaching a settlement with the state of Minnesota over alleged ...