A New Orleans restaurant has paid more than $55,000 after an investigation revealed it had violated multiple U.S. child labor laws by hiring a 13 year-old, who subsequently was severely injured at the workplace.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) said Jacques-Imo Café has paid $55,288 in penalties after WHD investigators found the restaurant violated child labor provisions by employing a 13-year-old. The federal minimum employment age for non-agricultural workers is 14 years.
This minor suffered third-degree burns over more than a third of his body when he tripped and fell as he carried hot oil which he emptied from the kitchen’s deep fryer.
The FLSA prohibits minor employees from cleaning fryers when the oil temperature exceeds 100 degrees. The investigation also found that this minor, along with a 15-year-old employee, worked beyond the hours permitted for employees less than 16 years old. These minors worked past the evening hour limit of 7:00 p.m. during the school year, or 9:00 p.m. from June 1 through Labor Day, when they worked as late as 1:00 a.m.
The minors also worked more than 40 hours per week, more than 8 hours on a non-school day, more than 3 hours on a day when school is in session, all in violation of the law.
Youth under 18 are prohibited from operating, setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling, or cleaning machines deemed hazardous by the Secretary of Labor.
Youth ages 14 and 15 may be employed outside school hours in a variety of non-manufacturing and non-hazardous jobs for limited periods of time and under specified conditions.
Source: WHD
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