US company agrees to fine for hiring children to clean slaughterhouses
US company agrees to fine for hiring children to clean slaughterhouses
US labor department announced that Fayette Janitorial Service agreed to $650,000 fine and mandate to no longer employ minors
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Today I learned that you can “agree” to fines.
53 0 ReplyWell, the alternative is to fight it in court.
11 0 ReplyIt’s part of getting a traffic ticket. Agree, confess, mail your check to the judge. Or take time off to show up and contest it.
4 1 ReplyYep. Once again they prove that ‘the law’ only applies to the poor. If you or I killed some one its life in prison, if a corporation kills someone in pursuit of profits its a fine. When will prison/the death penalty come for the corporate world poisoning the plant from unchecked greed?
4 2 ReplyYou've never heard of a consent decree or plea bargain? They're common legal tools to avoid lengthy and expensive trials.
2 0 ReplyThe child labour fees plus the fine probably works out cheaper than employing off legal working age workers, so it isn’t really a fine.
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