Two Chick-fil-As in St. George were fined $187,000 by the U.S. Department of Labor and ordered to pay $47,000 in back wages and liquidated damages.
— which establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, record-keeping and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in federal, state and local governments — child labor provisions.
Investigators said the locations illegally allowed 14- and 15-year-old employees to work past permitted hours and for too many hours in a day. Additionally, the employer incurred overtime violations by not including the missing break time when paying time-and-a-half the regular rate of pay for hours over 40 in a workweek.
"Child labor violations and the failure to pay for all of work, as well as overtime had costly consequences for this Chick-fil-A franchisee in St. George," Hunt said.In March, the labor department announced that Utah soda and dessert shopat its Midvale, Orem, Provo and South Jordan locations. "The division determined that Sodalicious allowed 14- and 15-year-old employees to work past 7 p.m. when school was in session, after 9 p.m. during summer months and more than 3 hours on a school day at four of its Utah locations," the department said in a release.
In response to the Sodalicious locations violating the Fair Labor Act, the division assessed the company with $13,946 in penalties to resolve the infractions.
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