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notice no one is going to jail.
The company is being fined, so no single person is being held accountable monetarily either
Google tells me:
Tuff Torq has 513 employees, and the revenue per employee ratio is $311,891. Tuff Torq peak revenue was $160.0M in 2023.
They were fined $300,000. So less than one employees' worth of revenue.
Cost of doing business, as usual.
Fined $300K, but also have to give up $1.5M in profit for the 10 kids. $150,000 per kid, or, you know, 1/2 of the revenue they generated. ;)
Well I'm sure a company with ethics, like John Deere probably, will stop doing business with Tuff Torq now. Definitely.
No, they'll just re-negotiate their contract to get a better deal causing Tuff Torque to treat their remaining employees worse.
Or owner bankrupts tuff torq, gives himself a termination bonus, then makes a new LLC called Tough Tork
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You'd think since companies are people they'd be thrown in jail or something.
They would but companies usually are considered rich people so they get the same treatment.
Corporations are people until it comes to them committing serious felonies.
At that point they're "too big to fail"
Whoever signed off on hiring literal children should be held accountable. Actually holding these people to accountability is the only way this is getting solved
Cost of doing business
Saw the headline, said, "I bet they're immigrant children."
Surprise, surprise.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-labor-crisis
Yup. Republicans claim they want to close the border, but have no problem exploiting the labor supply.
"The Labor Department has prioritized child labor enforcement since last spring amid a 152% increase in children found to be illegally employed since 2018, according to department figures."
Mostly immigrants I'd bet
Also illegal immigrants
Of course they are. Why else would you oppose immigration, except to be able to exploit illegal immigrants?
By virtue of being here unlawfully, they have little recourse. That fact alone is essentially leverage for any “employer” to exploit them over.
It’s clearly not because they are a drain on the system, because that’s been disproven time and time again. Their economic contributions far outweigh whatever little social programs they’re able to obtain.
So it must be because they are a great pool of cheap, under-the-table, sub-minimum-wage, exploitable labor. Just like prisoners and prostitutes (except for the sans sub-minimum wage part. Plenty of illicit sex workers that are unpaid victims of trafficking, but if the John is paying less than $7.25 an hour, they should really know better)
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Indeed, and this is what the vast majority of human trafficking actually is. But you may have noticed that very few conservatives are calling for the blood of these factory owners.
$300k is a joke. Every manager should be in prison and the factory should be nationalized. Keep the legit (adult) employees there, and transition the business to worker ownership.
Do that a few times and you’ll see some changes in how businesses behave.
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What a shit hole country
Oh but c'mon, it's a country where undiagnosed schizophrenics have the freedom to buy semi-automatic firearms, proudly rapist lying bankrupt fraudsters can become the president and guns are the leading cause of death for children!
What's not to like?
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Just wait until conservatism gets back in charge. K-6 can look forward to the coal mines.
I have been told they do yearn for them....
Tennessee: old enough to make assembly line lawn mower parts
Florida: not old enough for social media.
But old enough to have a rifle/shotgun. And not just in Tennessee:
John Deere really continuing to speedrun the Most Hated Company in America challenge I see
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but children crave the mines
Are you from Tennessee? 'Cause you're the only ten-year-old I see working on this assembly line.
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They can't attend school as often if they work, so an additional benefit in some circles.
Companies found using child labor should have their business license revoked and forced to liquidate.
And the CEO / Board members jailed or sent to a forced labour camp. Either way I would be happy
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“Pott, the general counsel for Tuff Torq’s majority owner, said the child workers were temporary and were not hired directly by Tuff Torq. He said they used fake names and false credentials to obtain jobs through a temporary staffing agency, and said Tuff Torq is ‘transitioning’ away from doing business with the staffing company.” They’re just passing the blame now that they got caught; otherwise, I’m sure they’d continue to turn a blind eye.
Yeah, they didn't stop and go... "The staffing agency says you're 18, I don't buy it. Where's your ID?"
well, at least none of those kids were being endangered by hormones!1!!11!
Imagine how insanely productive kids must be at repetitive tasks. And it's not like they have been exposed to the labour struggles, they'll have to figure it out all of that on their own.
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Just think of all the valuable work experience these children are missing out on due to the nanny state! /s (the actual thought of rightwing ghouls).
The reason businesses and right wingers are so pro border enforcement is so they can abuse children like this. Threaten deportation and you don't have to follow labor laws.
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