Reuters reports at least four major auto parts suppliers in Alabama for Hyundai and Kia have used child labor recently.
an Opelika temporary employment agency, earlier this year paid fines from federal court and the Alabama Department of Labor, after investigators found workers as young as 13 employed in one factory.
The fines came after an investigation found that JK USA provided the underage workers to SL Alabama without required documentation. According to the Reuters report, a Hwashin America Corp. in Greenville employed a 14-year-old Guatemalan girl assembling auto body components, while as many as 10 minors worked at Ajin Industrial Co, in Cusseta, according to ex-employees.In addition, a team of Labor Department and Alabama state inspectors in late August arrived at one of Ajin’s plants. At the same moment, some workers left the factory before they could be questioned, the news service reported.
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