ConAgra Inc., one of the nation’s largest food manufacturing companies, agreed to pay a fine of $225,000 for knowingly hiring illegal workers at the company’s chicken plant in Kentucky. Officials of the company admitted that they knew that four employees were working illegally. ConAgra, the maker of its popular products as Healthy Choice frozen dinners and Wesson Oil, closed the plant nearly three years ago after the advance investigation began.
The INS agent in charge of the investigation indicated that the agency has similar investigations under way at other plants for other companies around country. The announcement of the fine comes on the heels of a report issued by Congress which estimated that as many as 25 percent of the workers at Midwestern meatpacking plants are working illegally.
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