Mio’s Pizza in Cincinnati, Milford allows minors to operate dangerous equipment

Labor Department fines pizza restaurants $30K for child labor violations, recovers $12K for two managers illegally denied overtime wages

Mio’s Pizza in Cincinnati, Milford allows minors to operate dangerous equipment

CINCINNATI – A federal investigation of the employment practices of the operators of two Cincinnati-area pizza restaurants has identified numerous violations of child labor, overtime and recordkeeping regulations.

In May 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division investigated Mio’s Pizza locations in Cincinnati and Milford, and found owners Dan and Leslie Igo violated several provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

At the Cincinnati location – operated by Stuff It LCC – division investigators found the following:

• 12 minors, under the age of 16, illegally allowed to use manual fryers, operate gas ovens with an open flame, move pizza in and out of a broiler/conveyor oven, and use a mechanical dough puller and sheeter. These activities violate federal hazardous orders that forbid young workers from performing cooking and baking operations.
• 16 minors assigned to work in violation of hours worked standards.
• One manager denied required overtime wages because the employer paid them a weekly salary of $584 and improperly claimed they were a salaried manager and exempt from overtime. By law, employers may only claim an exemption from overtime for managers when they...

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