company. According to the PSSI website, the company has more than 16,500 employees and contracts with hundreds of slaughter and meatpacking facilities countrywide. The contracts Packers had with JBS USA operations in Nebraska and Minnesota, with 27 children, as well as a Cargill Inc. factory in Kansas, with 26 children, were the cause of the largest fines imposed on the company. Tyson Food, George's Inc, Buckhead Meat of Minnesota, Gibbon Packing Co, Greater Omaha Packing Co Inc, Maple Leaf Farms, and Turkey Valley Farms are among the other processors that hired children. The Labor Department made no accusations of wrongdoing against JBS (JBSS3.SA), Cargill, or any other meatpackers. fine Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, PSSI was charged $15,138 by the Department of Labor for each minor-aged employee who was employed in breach of the law. PSSI has paid $1.5 million in civil money penalties, as stated in the press release. References Child labor in the United States Meat industry United States lawsuits