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Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contractor pays $1.5M fine

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

Invictus0 wrote: post #7

> Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the department assessed PSSI $15,138 for each minor-aged employee who was employed in violation of the law. The amount is the maximum civil money penalty allowed by federal law.

So if they employ 10k kids they get the y can turn a profit despite the fine?

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Post by sokoloff »

organsnyder wrote: post #4

Did the company make more than $1.5M in additional revenue due to employing those 100+ kids (plus the others that are likely to have never been identified)?

Presumably variable gross profit is the measure to refer to/compare against, rather than revenue.

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Post by oramit »

"Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the department assessed PSSI $15,138 for each minor-aged employee who was employed in violation of the law. The amount is the maximum civil money penalty allowed by federal law."

Wow, I knew that labor laws in the US were toothless but to have it spelled out like this is so depressing. A max penalty of ~15k per violation, just bravo team, bravo.

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