Amid an environment of heightened scrutiny of child labor law violations — and of legislative attacks on such laws, state labor regulators announced Monday that they’d collected a total of $22,150 in fines from a Georgia-based contractor tied to an October 2022 incident in Lawrence County, Pa.
The company, JVS Roofing LLC, of Jonesboro, Ga., also was hit with separate federal violations after a 17-year-old worker fell 24 feet from the roof of a home improvement store in New Castle, Pa., in October 2022, the state Department of Labor & Industry said in a statement. The worker was air-lifted to a local hospital for treatment of minor injuries, labor regulators said.
The fine stemmed from violations of the Pennsylvania Construction Workplace Misclassification Act (Act 72) and the Pennsylvania Child Labor Act, the agency said in its statement.
Of that total, the contractor was hit with $13,600 in administrative penalties for failing to obtain working papers and for failing to provide proper breaks for child workers.
Pennsylvania’s Child Labor Act requires working papers for all children and that all children receive at least a 30-minute break every five hours, state regulators said.
The contractor also was fined $8,550 for misclassifying nine workers as independent contractors, state officials said.
“Pennsylvania’s Child Labor Act safeguards young workers’ welfare and safety by regulating the employment of children under 18,” the agency said in its statement. “The law...
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