Two 10-year-olds were found working at a Kentucky McDonald’s, where they prepared and served meals, worked the drive-thru and the cash register and cleaned the store as late as 2 a.m., according to federal labor officials.
A McDonald's sign at a restaurant in downtown Pittsburgh. Federal investigators found more than 300 minors, including 10-year-olds, were working illegally, the Labor Department said.
The children are two of 305 minors under the age of 16 who the agency’s Wage and Hour Division investigators learned were working illegally at McDonald’s restaurants in Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland and Ohio, the Department of Labor announced in a May 2 news release. A spokesperson for Bauer Food told McClatchy News in a statement on May 2 that “the two 10-year-olds allegedly employed were children of a night manager who were visiting their parent at work and were not approved by franchisee organization management to be in that part of the restaurant.”
While there are special exceptions for children of any age working at a business entirely owned by their parents, the minimum age for employment is 14, Coria said.
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