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Children under the age of 16 were operating deep fryers and working hours prohibited by federal law at more than a half-dozen McDonald's locations in Pennsylvania, the US Department of Labor said Wednesday.
At seven restaurants across the state, 154 minors were employed at times they should have been at home focusing on their schoolwork, investigators said. At five of the locations, more than 23 minors, some as young as 14, were found to be working illegally.
"Since 2018, we have seen an alarming increase in the number of young workers employed in violation of federal child labor laws," John DuMont, of the department's Wage and Hour Division, said in a statement. In 2022, more than 3,800 children were found to be employed in violation of federal law; in 2012, that number was just over 1,600.
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