A Salt Lake City restaurant supply company was fined $16,595 by the U.S. Department of Labor after federal investigators found it violated child labor laws.

Details: The business, Standard Restaurant Supply, allowed 22 minors between ages 14 and 15 to work up to 46 hours a week and past midnight, the Labor Department announced this week.

• It's unclear whether the violations occurred when school was in session.
• Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 14- and 15-year-olds cannot work more than eight hours per day or more than 40 hours a week when school isn't in session.
• During the academic year, 14- and 15-year-olds are prohibited from working more than three hours a day on a school day or more than 18 hours a week when school is in session. During the school year, they cannot work past 7pm.

Between the lines: Ellery Kingston is the company's president and Eric Kingston serves as business director, public records show.

• The company has familial ties to the Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group, a Utah-based polygamous sect that holds some similar beliefs to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
• In a 2003 blog post on the group's official website, Ellery Kingston wrote about Standard Restaurant Supply and the business lessons he learned from his late mother, Ardous Kingston Gustafson, who was a member of the cooperative.
• Last year, 10 former members of the Kingston Group sued the polygamous sect and most alleged being...

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