Wendy's fined small amount for violating child labor laws

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wendys-fin ... abor-laws/

It works out to $400 per child labor violation offense. There are people in jail for possessing tiny amounts of drugs or owing money, but nobody who did this will ever see the inside of a jail cell. How a country enforces its laws reveals its priorities.

[Nealithi]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wendys-fin ... abor-laws/

It works out to $400 per child labor violation offense. There are people in jail for possessing tiny amounts of drugs or owing money, but nobody who did this will ever see the inside of a jail cell. How a country enforces its laws reveals its priorities.

It is the last parts of your case that make it hard to debate. What do you want, life imprisonment for having a seventeen year old out till 1030pm on a school night? Who do you blame? The CEO of Wendy's or the assistant manager with local control that set that schedule?

I find that making the corporate overlords handle local rules is a mistake. You get places in NYC deciding if people in a Florida store should evacuate from a hurricane. Or vice versa there is an increasing amount of snow on the roads but keep people in work till after dark because it is not affecting the person calling that shot in Florida.

Now I noted in the article Wendy's gets top billing in the headline but is fined $400,000. But Chipotle got 1.3 million against it. Showing they were a far worse transgressor, but they are not as well known apparently to Wendy's so not worth the headline.

[hammerofglass]

I really wish there were more details in the article. Because while forcing the employees to work those hours or be fired is obviously bad, if they instead offered them as an option and the employees took it by choice then this just seems really petty on the state's part.

[Deledrius]

I guess that comes down to the bigger questions on whether an option is really an option, depending on the financial situation the employee is in. But that's a social issue we collectively struggle to even talk about still.

[TGLS]

I guess that comes down to the bigger questions on whether an option is really an option, depending on the financial situation the employee is in. But that's a social issue we collectively struggle to even talk about still.

Yeah, but like how much of that is even Wendy's fault?

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Generally we’re not trying to make sure that everybody gets punished to the same amount of unfairness. But yeah the standards need to be called into question at that point.