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AVON, Ohio (WJW) — A local restaurant violated child labor laws more than 300 times over the course of several months in 2021, and was fined for doing it again.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found 15 minor employees at Slim Chickens franchises in Avon and Streetsboro consistently worked hours that violated child labor provisions in the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to a news release.
Those hours were assigned by Ohio Slims LLC and the restaurants’ owner, David Giesen of Dover.
The business had been warned about similar violations in 2021 at its Streetsboro location, where investigators found more than 300 occasions in which 14- and 15-year-olds were allowed to work later than 7 p.m. during the school year or after 9 p.m. between June 1 and Labor Day, according to the release.
In another 150 instances, employees younger than 16 worked more than three hours on a school day. On some days, when school was out, the kids would work more than eight hours. They would also work more than 18 hours during a school week.
“The restaurants’ operator blamed the child labor violations on managers confused by differences in federal and state wage laws, but our investigators found the employer committed the same violations after being informed of their requirement to comply with federal law,” Wage and Hour District Director Matthew Utley is...
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