Iowa Pizza Restaurant to Pay $99K Over Child Labor Law Violations

An Iowa pizza edifice has agreed to wage $99,000 successful fines aft a Department of Labor probe recovered the concern assigned teenage employees to unsafe duties.

Investigators recovered Pizza Parlor and proprietor Michelle Drougas illegally employed 11 children.

Six children were employed to run and cleanable a nutrient grinder and 7 children drove centrifugal vehicles connected nationalist roadways to present orders. These activities are prohibited by hazardous occupations orders nether the Fair Labor Standards Act.

One kid younger than 16 was employed to usage an oven heated to betwixt 500 and 900 degrees Fahrenheit to assistance hole and navigator pizza. Fourteen- and 15- year-olds whitethorn beryllium employed successful nutrient mentation and constricted cooking tasks, but they whitethorn not execute immoderate baking activities. The employers besides assigned children to enactment successful usurpation of national limits connected hours.

The employers person made an archetypal outgo of $33,294 and volition wage the equilibrium successful installments done Sept. 30, 2025.

Source: Department of Labor

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