The US Labor Department has requested that a federal court issue a temporary injunction against Tennessee-based Fayette Janitorial Services after investigators found the company "employed children to clean and sanitise spaces and equipment during overnight shifts" in meat and poultry slaughtering establishments, according to a federal complaint."Minors were used to clean dangerous kill floor equipment such as head splitters, jaw pullers, meat bandsaws, and neck clippers," the Labor Department said in a news release on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT).According to the complaint, the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division "found that Fayette employs minors under the age of 18 whose job is to clean the killing floor".
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