Kids as young as 14 were found working at a Tennessee factory that makes lawn mower parts
The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed.
Immigrant children as young as 14 were found working illegally amid dangerous heavy equipment at a Tennessee firm that makes parts for lawn mowers sold by John Deere and other companies, according to Labor Department officials.
The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. As part of a consent agreement with the federal government, the company is also required to set aside $1.5 million to help the children who were illegally employed. Ryan Pott, general counsel for Tuff Torq’s majority owner, the Japanese firm Yanmar, acknowledged the violations to NBC News.
Well, they are 2 positions removed here... Staffing company illegally supplied the kids to a 3rd party supplier of John Deere.
It would be like, I dunno, someone hiring illegal employees for a glass company selling bottles to Coca Cola.
There are things called down chain audits, like how Nestle knows all about the forced child labour that goes on in their supply chains and still refuses to part with said companies because it will make chocolate more expensive
Well, cocoa is now more expensive than copper...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cocoa-more-expensive-copper-tops-111128755.html
Next Wonka reboot will feature meth-heads raiding the abandoned factory after Charlie loses it because the UN put sanctions on him for human rights violations.
Nah not believable. Charlie is white so the UN ain't going to touch him.
Place I was at just had multiple people working on the same name. X was the official employee and X officially works 80 hours a week. X is two people one of which doesn't have papers.
That doesn't sound tax effective for the person with papers
How convenient for them.