The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed.

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The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed.

Immigrant children as young as 14 were found working illegally amid dangerous heavy equipment at a Tennessee firm that makes parts for lawn mowers sold by John Deere and other companies, according to Labor Department officials.

The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. As part of a consent agreement with the federal government, the company is also required to set aside $1.5 million to help the children who were illegally employed. Ryan Pott, general counsel for Tuff Torq’s majority owner, the Japanese firm Yanmar, acknowledged the violations to NBC News.

  • @[email protected]
    7•9 months ago

    These companies are are always fined such low amounts. Just once, I want to read: company does something illegal. Government fines them $3 billion. Or half of their worth.

    Or something meaningful. Just once.

    • @roofuskit
      4•9 months ago

      At the very least the fine should always be double what the profit gained was.

    • aname
      4•9 months ago

      “Tennessee factory was shut down after government crack down on child labor.”

    • @CptEnder
      2•9 months ago

      Pull their property leases or business licenses.