The US Department of Labor has found two 10-year-old boys working at a McDonald’s restaurant in Louisville until the wee hours of the morning.
“Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found two 10-year-old workers at a Louisville McDonald’s restaurant among many violations of federal labor laws committed by three McDonald’s franchise operators in Kentucky,” they explain in a statement.
The Division of Hours and Wages of said department has been the one who has carried out this investigation that has targeted three companies: Bauer Food LLC, Archways Richwood LLC and Bell Restaurant Group I LLC. These work with 62 branches of the famous hamburger brand in Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland and Ohio, in which they employed more than 300 minors to work more hours than the law allows.
Therefore, the three franchises have been ordered to pay $212,000 (192,000 euros). “Too often, employers fail to follow child labor laws that protect young workers,” Karen Garnett-Civils, district director of the agency’s wage and hour division, said in a statement. “Under no circumstances should a 10-year-old child be working in a fast-food kitchen around hot grills, ovens, and deep fryers.”
In the United States, despite being allowed to hire minors, the legislation limits the types of work that they can perform, as well as the number of hours in which they can work: “The work must be done outside of school hours; not more than 3 hours on a school day, and no more than 8 hours on a non-school day. It cannot start before 7:00 a.m. or continue after 7:00 p.m.”
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