Nationwide snack manufacturer busted for illegally employing 2 teens in Minnesota
After federal investigators discovered two minors illegally employed at the company’s Minnesota location, a nationwide maker of snacks and convenience foods will make changes. Monogram Foods, located in Memphis, Tennessee, has been ordered by a federal court in the state to comply with federal child labor regulations at all of its sites and warehouses around the country, “and to take significant steps to comply with these laws in the future.” Teens operating meat-processing equipment An investigation launched on 28 March at Monogram Meat Snacks LLC in Chandler, Minnesota — which produces ready-to-eat and refrigerated items such as jerky and smoked sausage — discovered the company employed “at least two 16- and 17-year-old children illegally employed to operate meat-processing equipment in violation of federal child labor hazardous orders.” The Labour Department stopped the company from shipping items from the Chandler facility shortly after the investigation by the department’s W...