Workers for slaughterhouse cleaning firm PSSI repeatedly used stolen identities to get jobs
Workers for PSSI, which hired over 100 children to clean slaughterhouses, repeatedly used stolen identities to get jobs, say ex-managers and people who told NBC News their identities were stolen.
Workers for a company recently found to have hired more than 100 children to clean slaughterhouses have repeatedly used stolen identities to get hired, according to former company managers, local police officials and individuals who told NBC News their identities were stolen.
A Texas woman reported having her ID used twice by workers for Packers Sanitation Services Inc., the second time years after she’d already complained to the company.
A former plant manager who did not want to be identified told NBC News that PSSI repeatedly hired people with obviously fake IDs. “There’s no one else who wants to do [the work],” he said.
NBC News speaks to migrant teen working in dangerous slaughterhouseApril 12, 202304:26PSSI employs 17,000 workers nationwide and sanitizes more than 400 slaughterhouses and other facilities during overnight shifts. Working conditions are hazardous and it is against the law for anyone under 18 to work there. The company reached an agreement with the Labor Department after investigators uncovered children as young as 13 working dangerous jobs in 13 locations in eight states. In February, the company paid a $1.5 million fine and agreed to three years of increased oversight.
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