The US Labor Department recovered thousands in back wages and assessed penalties after finding child labor, minimum wage, and overtime violations by the operators of three La Panaderia Bakery & Café locations in San Antonio, Texas.
The department’s Wage and Hour Division found the three companies operating the cafés employed a 13-year-old, under the legal age for employment, and permitted a 15-year-old to work overnight in violation of child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The employers also failed to pay proper minimum wage and overtime rates to workers.
DOL assessed a $25,706 civil money penalty for the ...
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