cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/11235723
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13576449
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.
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Because I was allotted 30 minutes to finish a training session and it just took me 15 minutes
If people are capital batteries, the sovcits are right
No, sane people don’t tell the person with a gun to their head that bullets don’t apply to them. That isn’t resistance, that’s self-delusion.
They’re just in denial about the problem in a different way than the capitalism sycophant peasants. The former believes they can opt out of their captivity like its a kids game, sorry cousin doesn’t work that way short of suicide, and the latter decided to go the Stockholm syndrome route and love their captor.
They explicitly believe the government has used them as collateral, that hat the value of them has earned interest over time, and that they should be able to access that capital. Y’all are bedfellows
We don’t even agree on the same source of entrenched power as the problem, but believe whatever you like.
They believe their labor is collateral used by the state, via industry. The only difference is they think they can download a form to access it
“One freedom form please”
Oh man the court clerks must hate them
There’s a sub here about Facebook posts from them it is hilarious.
I sent in 10 silver coins and sealed the envelope with a red thumb print! Why didn’t that pay off my mortgage???
They probably saved way more than they were fined.
when a company makes profit from crimes and a gov “fines” them only a fraction of their crimes profits, that gov is basically saying 'good job, go on, do more! but we want to get paid for protecting you and participate in profiting from your crimes" to them. it does not matter if that gov actually says such words bcs this is what the criminal groups will hear AND experience then anyway. thus words are neither needed nor could stop such crimes. but such words can help raise the crimerate again when news talk like that company had payed the fine and the crowd would stop looking into it but look rather away of it. this way those “fines” -when too low- actually help the criminals to go on with crimes.
As is sadly tradition…
meanwhile in NSW Australia it is perfectly legal to employ children for anything … you just fucking don’t because you have to pay them minimum wage.
Here in the Netherlands, some times it feels like 14 year olds are running the entire supermarket industry.
If this is what humanity is all about, put me firmly in the misanthrope column.
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Seems like we could get some 12 year olds in there. Try harder Tennessee!
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.
“Tennessee factory was shut down after government crack down on child labor.”
At the very least the fine should always be double what the profit gained was.
Pull their property leases or business licenses.
$3 billion / a day
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, that just means it’s legal for the wealthy/only a crime for the competition that doesn’t have money to burn.
Frankly it’s about damned time criminal corporations had to worry about having their charters yanked
Some capitalist exec somewhere is masturbating at the idea of having illegal immigrant minors working for him on a factory floor for less than minimum wages with no benefits.
Where are all the “build a wall” and “they take our jobs” screamers now?
Oh those top execs don’t give two shots about those. It’s all a show to them to watch with popcorn.
