Another Manager At Iowa Kosher Slaughterhouse Charged With Violations Of Child Labor Law [View All]

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Source: Associated Press

January 27, 2009 - 11:02 AM

DES MOINES, Iowa - Nearly a thousand new charges have been filed in the state's prosecution of alleged child labor violations at a kosher meatpacking plant in northeast Iowa.

The 954 new charges were filed Jan. 16 against Jeffrey Heasley, a beef production supervisor at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Postville. They include alleged child labor violations of employing minors in a meatpacking establishment and for exposing minors to dangerous or poisonous chemicals.

Last September, the Iowa attorney general's office filed more than 9,000 charges against the plant, its owners and managers. Heasley was not one of the managers charged at that time.

Prosecutors accuse the company of hiring minors and in some cases of having children younger than 16 handle dangerous equipment.

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The other defendants include the company itself; plant owner Abraham Aaron Rubashkin; his son Sholom Rubashkin, former plant manager; human resources manager Elizabeth Billmeyer; and human resource employees Laura Althouse and Karina Freund.

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