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The Saga of Postville Continues: Trial date set for Agriprocessors in child labor case

By immigrationprof

 The trial for Agriprocessors Inc. related to violations of child labor law has been set to begin May 4. A number of Agriprocessors officials “face 9,211 charges related to employing underage youth, requiring them to work more than eight hours per day and more than 40 hours per week, requiring them to operate power-driven machinery and exposing them to dangerous and poisonous chemicals.”  After a federal immigration raid of the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa in May 2008, Iowa state officials conducted further investigations before brining the child labor charges.

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