Posted on 12/21/2022 9:19:45 AM PST by BenLurkin
An owner of a Chick-fil-A in North Carolina was fined over $6,000 and required to pay a handful of employees in back wages after the Department of Labor found multiple child labor and minimum wage standards were violated.
A report released by the DOL on Monday said the Chick-fil-A location in Hendersonville, N.C., which is owned by Good Name 22:1 LLC, allowed three workers under the age of 18 to operate, load or unload a trash compactor, which resulted in $6,450 in fines.
Federal regulations surrounding child labor prohibit employed minors to perform hazardous jobs.
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“But their signs said ‘Will work for food.’”
Did the owner wash their feet?
Operating a trash compactor? Really?
I was doing far more dangerous things than that in my teens….
probably owned by “immigrants” who get government grants to purchase businesses that native born Americans don’t “qualify” for!
Your country has been invaded and all of your values and heritage has been erased! Nice job neocons and leftists! You support satan and the one-world, borderless government coming soon to a world near you!
Oh heck, when I was 17 I was operating a chopper attachment on a Hobart mixer that was far more dangerous than any trash compactor.
The headline made it sound like the restaurant had 12 year olds running the fryer. Chick-Fil-A usually pays more than the competition and is very selective in hirings, so the headline struck me as odd.
They broke the law and got fined. Not seeing why this has to be national news.
“Your country has been invaded and …”
What country is yours?
Stupid karens!! They were working and earning. They were staying out of trouble. The owner is a sht for not paying them in cash. but the teens were trying to work.
The union thugs once sued my sister-in-law’s supermarket employer because she opened the door for a delivery truck to deliver it’s stuff and the official union thug door operator wasn’t at work at that time. Pushing a button is pretty hazardous.
The kids should be doing something safe like running around the parking lot taking orders from the lines of cars. I’m surprised the local Chick-fil-A doesn’t lose a couple employees a day the way they go among the cars without looking.
Because Chick-fil-a is tangentially involved and the libs wanna denegrate them... even though it's one ne'er-do-well owner and the corporation isn't really involved.
No, probably owned by "immigrants" who get to jump the line and have access to green cards if they make a substantial business investment in the U.S.
That's why Motels and Convenience Stores are always owned by Indians or Middle Easterners. They buy the business, move to the U.S., get a green card, work the business for a couple of years, then sell the business to someone else back home so they can immigrate to the U.S.
It's a revolving door racket.
“Federal regulations surrounding child labor prohibit employed minors to perform hazardous jobs.”
Hmm, what’s the statute of limitations? I could sue my dad for making me handle fiberglass insulation without protective equipment and spraypaint cabinets with no ventilation...
This owner is an idiot. The managers of Winn Dixie has an app that tells immediately when an underage worker must leave, go on break, ect. No way would they have an underage child running machinery of any kind. And to pay with food is repulsive. He really got off easy. Should have done six months in jail as well.
Too bad. One too many teenager killed themselves. Thus the f’ing law. All laws are written in blood. Just because you used a machine in the 1800’s doesn’t exempt this idiot from breaking the law.
I worked at Fast Food places as a teenager.
I don’t know how I survived!.......
I'm not sure though if it was legally illegal when I was 9yo and walking through a field tossing junk wood on a flatbed trailer pulled by a 1mph tractor? In fairness though, I am compelled to mention that I was eventually promoted to driving the tractor and my cousins and little sister doing the wood tossing. Or when I was a 13yo paperboy on a bike at 5am, 4am Sundays? Or at 15yo when I worked a summer job for a suburban town on the drainage ditch clearing crew driving a tractor and swinging a weed hook?
Should I sue? Oh my gawd was I abused at a tender age?
Yes amazing how you have spun the 1980s abs 90s when I was a teenager into the 1800s
I have no doubt folks have been killed in trash compactors.. but I’ll put that number against the number killed in silos any day of the week but it’s allowed to this day under federal law from the age of 16 on.
But hey, a trash compactor now, that’s too much for a child to handle
Because it is Chic-fil-A a Nazi, white nationalist, Christian company. /s
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