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It's child endangerment. Someone needs to go to jail.
The fine should be equal to the company's net profit for every month those kids worked ... and 1/2 of it should be paid to the kids and their families.
net profit
That's how you get hollywood accounting. It should either be based on revenue or some multiple of the cost of doing it correctly the first time (multiple being based on risk of getting caught) or some multiple of the cost of investigating. Either that, and/or everyone in a management position that knew about these kids should be criminally charged and barred from management positions in similar workplaces.
should be paid to the kids and their families
That's how you get families exploiting their kids to get them into dangerous jobs just to turn around for the payoff. The families should also be investigated for letting their kids work dangerous jobs.
When the punishment is a fine, it’s only a crime if you’re poor.
this is kentucky. if they really didnt want this to happen again, it should be criminal charges. but nope, 'job creators' will never let that happen
Wow! That fucked and the fine so little.
I've got this shifty look on my face because I was totally driving a forklift when I was 13.
Nobody was forcing me to do it. I was just hanging around at my bother in law's workplace and wanted to mess with the forklift. You know how it is. So he taught me how to operate it. Then every time I went there I would help out by doing whatever loading and unloading needed to be done and wasn't too tricky. Okay, and also pointlessly driving the forklift around and doing burnouts and stuff in the parking lot on the company's dime.
I did it for free, too. What a little chump.
14 for me. Got paid for it as well. One of those standing types. Was so much fun felt like a small god.
Two children for months? There should be a larger fine and prison time for whoever did the hiring and also whoever was managing them.
That fine is a joke. How much of it paid for the time of whoever was involved in the investigation, and ALL associated bureaucratic crap?
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
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