JBS USA and Perdue Farms will each pay $4 million for employing children through third-party staffing agencies, officials announced this week.

Perdue Farms and JBS have settled with the Labor Department after relying on migrant children to do dangerous work in their slaughterhouses. Most of the money will be used to help the children.

JBS USA Food Co., a leading meat packing processor and slaughterhouse, will provide $4 million to address illegal child labor practices nationwide, according to a Monday announcement from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Agribusiness giants Purdue Farms and JBS Foods, along with a slaughterhouse cleaning company, paid about $8.4 millions in fines for having underaged workers in dangerous jobs.

JSB and Perdue Farms agreed to settlements of $4 million each, while QSA, which employed 54 children, will pay $400,000.