Win.IT America fined $30,000 for employing two children — ages 11 and 13 — for months at its Hebron distribution center.
The operator of a distribution center in Hebron, Kentucky, faces a $30,000 fine for employing children — ages 11 and 13 — to operate a forklift and pick up warehouse orders. The findings add to a trend of employers hiring more children illegally, with some of them working in dangerous jobs, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.Investigators discovered the children to be illegally employed in August at a Win.IT America Inc. distribution center in Hebron.
, a provider of integrated supply chain solutions with more than 700 workers in Austria, Germany, Great Britain and the U.S. The company is not alone in paying children to perform jobs that put them at risk, which is against U.S. labor laws. Federal regulators in July reported finding nearly 4,500 children working in violation of federal child labor laws over the prior 10 months, an increase of 44% from a year earlier, the DOL said.
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