Attorneys for the Department of Labor are asking a judge to shut them down for 30 days.
) - A chicken plant that says it is Walker County ’s largest employer is accused of employing underage workers.
Mar-Jac Poultry in Jasper is accused of hiring minors to work in the plant, which is a violation of federal labor laws. The injunction keeps companies from profiting off of child labor, based on the fair labor standards act. According to the suit filed by the US Department of Labor, six teenagers were working in the Jasper chicken plant for months using forged documents after passing the e-verify system that is used to make sure a person is authorized to work legally.
The company says they were terminated after being found out, and they were not working around any heavy machinery, only in areas hanging chickens and removing wings. Mar-Jac is also arguing if they are shut down it could have a negative impact on the more than 1,000 workers that have jobs there and would have to be laid off for those 30 days and require the destruction of millions of chickens placing them in landfills.Federal laws prohibit 16- and 17-year-olds from working in most meat and poultry processing jobs.
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