cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/11235723
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13576449
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.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, that just means it’s legal for the wealthy/only a crime for the competition that doesn’t have money to burn.
Frankly it’s about damned time criminal corporations had to worry about having their charters yanked