The United States Department of Labor is fining the operators of some Sonic restaurants in Nevada.
The operations company, SDI of Neil LLC, oversees many Sonic Drive-In locations in the state. Three of their locations in Nevada violated child labor laws, ktnv.com reported.
The U.S. Department of Labor has laws in place that ensure young employees in the workforce are safe and also that their jobs do not interfere with school work. Investigators for the Department of Labor found that the locations in question were allowing school-aged kids to work inappropriate hours. Furthermore, there were conditions that were not safe for children in the workplace.
The investigators found kids aged 14 and 15 working at the Sonic restaurants at unapproved hours. That’s before 7 a.m. and after 7 p.m. between Labor Day and June 1. This is against one of the laws protecting kids from working excessively during the schoolyear. The restaurant also allowed this same age group to be working after 9 p.m. during summer hours. Another violation.
The Department of Labor also regulates the number of hours a school-aged child can work during the school year.
The maximum number of hours allowed for a school-aged child to work during the school year is three per day. Kids are also not permitted to work more than 18 hours a week during the school year. Furthermore, these kids can’t work more than an 8 hour shift on a weekend day. Or more than 40 hours a week. All of these rules were violated by the locations under investigation.
According to the department, the restaurants in question also violated the safety guidelines for young workers. Fry baskets didn’t have the safety features required for younger workers. And there was also a 13-year old being employed by one of the locations. All in all more than 170 violations were found, resulting in $71,000 in fines for the operations company. The six violating locations of the restaurants were in Fallon, Carson City and Minden.
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