Those children were learning the dignity of labor and fast-food efficiency.
Are these family of the franchise owners?
I’m trying to understand anyone having their kid work for someone else until 2AM for free.
Kramer?
When I was young (pre-16), I looked for part time jobs and was usually paid in cash. No big deal back then. Mowing lawns for neighbors, trimming trees and bushes, loaded/unloaded trucks for a guy who had a salvage business.
Now its considered child abuse to let kids have jobs.
I would bet, seeing as this is Kentucky, there is a good chance the owner/manager was just providing these kids with welcome opportunity, and was paying them cash under the table as they could not be legally employed. I dont think even 10 year olds were voluntarily working for no pay.
10-years-old?? That’s outrageous!
I mean, at that age, a child can decide to surgically change their gender, of course, but working at a McDonald’s doing these tasks, that’s totally unacceptable. Nice of the government to step in and stop this crime against humanity.
Were these 10 year olds American citizens?
"That includes two 10-year-olds who weren't paid, and sometimes had to work as late as 2 a.m. They prepared food, cleaned, worked the drive-thru, register, and one was even allowed to use the deep fryer.“Under no circumstances should there ever be a 10-year-old child working in a fast-food kitchen around hot grills, ovens and deep fryers,” Wage and Hour Division District Director Karen Garnett-Civils said."
“forced”..? More to this story.
I was working for my dad’s company at 12. Probably before.
It was a glass company. Somewhat more dangerous than operating a deep fryer.
This is deceptive propaganda. There is not one thing wrong or illegal about family owned apprenticeships. Keeps them off the streets and despite what this says, they do indeed get compensated as a partner in the business. They are just pissed they didn’t get their payroll income taxes so they are trying to paint this as wrong when it is not.
Probably the kids are a couple of the 85,000 missing illegal immigrant children. Are they employees of the franchisee or of some third party provider of workers, such that the franchisee can say they never knew the workers’ actual ages?
Close the borders. Stop human trafficking.
That’s a good way to lose your franchise license.
I thought the chain your daughter to work days were popular.
If it was the owners kids, that should be allowed. It’s a family business, after all.
No, not sarcasm.
I remember sweeping hair at my aunt and uncle’s barber shop when I was 9/10...
How do you get a kid to work without pay? Or even clean his room?