USA: Poultry processing firms Tyson and Perdue are under investigation after contractors allegedly hired migrant children, incl. cos comments
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 9월 23일
위치: 미국
기업 페이지
Fayette Industrial - Employer , Perdue Farms Inc. - Buyer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 1 - 과테말라 , 청소 및 유지보수 , Gender not reported ) , Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 위치를 알 수 없음 , 청소 및 유지보수 , Gender not reported )토픽들
아동 노동 , 산업 안전 및 보건 , 상해 , 강간과 성적 학대결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Journalist에 의해 요청됨
응답을 볼 수 있는 외부 링크: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: Representatives for Perdue said it was not trying to avoid accountability and would cooperate with any investigations. The company, which has policies prohibiting underage labor, said it had not known children were working in its Virginia plants. Perdue said it had hired an outside auditor to suggest new policies. “We recognize the systemic nature of this issue and embrace any role we can play in a solution,” a Perdue spokeswoman, Andrea Staub, said in a statement. Fayette said it had policies against child labor and was not aware of the federal investigations. Perdue has told Fayette that it may end its contract.
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 9월 23일
위치: 미국
기업 페이지
QSI (part of Vincit) - Employer , Tyson - Buyer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 위치를 알 수 없음 , 청소 및 유지보수 , Gender not reported )토픽들
아동 노동 , 산업 안전 및 보건 , 강간과 성적 학대결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Journalist에 의해 요청됨
응답을 볼 수 있는 외부 링크: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: Representatives for Tyson said it was not trying to avoid accountability and would cooperate with any investigations. The company, which has policies prohibiting underage labor, said it had not known children were working in its Virginia plants. Tyson said it had hired an outside auditor to suggest new policies. The Labor Department took the additional step of sending out an alert to hundreds of investigators nationwide about a child labor “enforcement action” against QSI. The alert outlined a clearinghouse system for tips about the company that will be run through the department’s Tennessee office, where the sanitation company is based. QSI said it had policies against child labor and was not aware of the federal investigations. Tyson said it planned to end its relationship with QSI at several plants.
출처: News outlet
“Tyson and Perdue Are Facing Child Labor Investigations”
…Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms…are under federal investigation into whether they relied on migrant children to clean slaughterhouses…
The Labor Department opened the inquiries after an article … found migrant children working overnight shifts for contractors in the companies’ plants … [in] Virginia…
…federal law bans minors from working in slaughterhouses because of the high risk of injury…
… the Biden administration is now examining whether large corporations can be considered employers even when children enter their factories through contractors…
Tyson said it was now directly employing cleaners at 40 percent of its slaughterhouses and aimed to bring more of this work in house. Perdue said it had hired an outside auditor to suggest new policies…
The Labor Department has also opened investigations into the companies that have been running the cleaning shifts for Perdue and Tyson in Virginia: Fayette Industrial, which works with Perdue, and QSI, which works with Tyson and is part of a conglomerate, the Vincit Group.
Fayette and QSI said they had policies against child labor and were not aware of the federal investigations. Tyson said it planned to end its relationship with QSI at several plants, while Perdue has told Fayette that it may end its contract…
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