The United States Labor Department filed a lawsuit in late March against a California poultry processor and its affiliated entities, accusing the firms of using “oppressive child labor.” The newly filed lawsuit marks the latest in a long list of recent DOL investigations that have uncovered alleged illegal child labor.
About the case
The complaint, filed against L&Y Food, Moon Poultry, JRC Culinary, and the owner of the companies, Fu Qian Chen Lu, claims that the facilities hired minors to use “sharp knives” to debone raw poultry in meat coolers. Additionally, the department accused the defendants of interfering with and obstructing the DOL’s Wage and Hours Division’s probe.
The Labor Department stated that it found two children working at Moon Poultry’s Irwindale facility who
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