“A top sanitation company has been accused of employing at least 31 children to clean the killing floors of slaughterhouses during graveyard shifts – one as young as 13, according to the Department of Labor.
The company, Packers Sanitation Services, or PSSI (owned by Blackstone), is contracted to work at meatpacking facilities and slaughterhouses across the country. According to court documents filed Wednesday, the children were allegedly employed at three facilities in Nebraska and Minnesota, NBC News reports.”