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The U.S. Department of Labor has found two 10-year-old boys working at a McDonald's restaurant in Louisville into the wee hours of the morning.
"Investigators from the department's Wage and Hour Division found two 10-year-old workers at a Louisville McDonald's restaurant among many federal labor law violations committed by three McDonald's franchise operators in Kentucky," they explain in a statement.
The Wage and Hour Division of that department has led this investigation that has targeted three companies: Bauer Food LLC, Archways Richwood LLC and Bell Restaurant Group I LLC. They work with 62 branches of the famous hamburger brand in Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland and Ohio, where they employed more than 300 minors to work longer hours than the law allows.
Therefore, the three franchises have been sentenced 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 there be a 10-year-old working in a fast food kitchen around hot grills, ovens and fryers."
In the United States, although the hiring of minors is allowed, the legislation limits the types of work they can perform, as well as the number of hours in which they can perform their work: "The work must be done outside school hours; No 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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