Children as young as 10 were found working at McDonald’s franchises in the Louisville area. WLWT’s Todd Dykes reports.
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#WLWT #Kentucky #McDonalds
3hour a day nah u can stay broke
Yeah so crazy that McDonald’s is still in business and still hiring children
Where were the parents? McDonalds didn’t kidnap them & make them work. Ten yr olds also can’t drive. So what were the parents thinking letting their kids work til 2am??
Based parents mad respect for them
Where are the thrr toook ourrr jiorrbs guys
Forget the fines…pull their license and ban them forever!! Let their kids go work for free….
Ok but wheres the parents
Should be shut down not just fined. Probably still paid less then paying a adult to work the job
Well this is what the Republicans want this is why they’re removing child slave labor protections all across America to put your ten-year-old back in the mines back in the fast-food line but they’re just thinking of the children the highly exploitable children
Why do you think Huckabee loosened child labor laws in her state? So the corporations can exploit cheep labor.
Can 11 and 12 year olds are not teenagers
Only a 212k fine ? They should be striped from owning a business , two ten year olds with not even pay ? Wow
My 8 year old would love to work there if it meant him getting out of the coal mines.
They just told people they were midgets
It’s fine. Red states are rolling back the minimum age requirements for workers.
After this I’ll never eat at McDonald’s again
This was the franchises decision, not the corporation- but okay
Wow! Talk about selective outrage!!! Children as young as 4 years old are mining the crap that goes into your cellphones, tablets and electric cars, yet you worry about a 10 year old getting a job at McDonalds…disgusting!!!
Seems like the parents need to be investigated as well. Who doesnt know what their 10 year old is doing at 2am
People desperate for income
Some were working for free
The Parents were the Franchise Owners I was told by another outlet. Utilizing that loophole which is also why they weren’t bein paid.
Of course you could just ban Child Labor outright… or not allow them to be paid less than adults. If a Child cost more than double what an Adult cost to an employer.. they’d stop using Children at all.
Instead a country founded on Slavery has found a way to pay almost nothing, or nothing for labor.. in a country that has a Massive Human Trafficking industry where kids are going missing and then companies are being found with a bunch of missing Children working for them (not in this specific case mind you).. but here we are.. in a country that has already been okay with using horrific Child labor in other countries.. seeing the same practices in Child labor emerging in the US.
The more it’s normalized the further it will go..
Shouldn’t the kid’s parents be in trouble to , for letting there kids work that young ? In Penna you have to 16 to work unless your mowing yards , babysitting .
Very than homeless…working and making $.
Daniel Boone is rolling over in his grave .
North Korea doesn’t even do this.
WackyD’s taking business from the colonel on his turf.
something is getting normalized. Eventually some senator will push for this to get even worse.
Iowa already did a couple weeks back. In the middle of the night no less.
Dumbest McDonald’s employees ever but I bet they won’t stop
Ok see I don’t understand the law, if your a kid and you want to work you should be able to. Maybe not that young but the rules are even strict at age 13-14-15. It should be allowed as long as the kid is willing to, it only becomes a issue when the kid no longer wants to then it’s a issue. Also how many hours maximum someone should work at a certain age is stupid also, again it should be up to the kid. Once the kid hits their limit that should be it. Let them work however they want just don’t force them to. It’s also dumb how there’s no regulation on how much someone can work for there parents, parents can FORCE you to work for them for like 8 hours straight and no break, and there’s no regulation on that but when someone wanting to work can’t because it’s more than 3 hrs. It’s kinda backwards.
I can tell you have no kids.
Gotta love red states.
When i was 15 i would rather be working than be at school. We need jobs from a young age so we can save for our future.
What labor violations do you think they got fined for? Do you think those restrictions should be removed?
When I was 8 years old, I was mucking horse stalls at the local stable for several hours a day so I could get free lessons. I worked there until I was 12 years old. It sure messed up my feet and knees but I learned how to ride really good.
I started working for my stepfather at age 11, he had a cleaning business and it was a family business so it was allowed by law. He didn’t make me work to take advantage of me, he had me work so I could learn responsibility and the value of hard work.
It’s wild to me that this is just a fine and not prison time.
family values hypocrites…
@Lauren Urban Under no circumstances should there ever be a 10-year-old child working in a fast-food kitchen around hot grills, ovens, and deep fryers. I don’t agree with the commenter that under these circumstances they deserve jail time but it is still highly negligent.
where do you live? here in America we have people doing far worse than this and not seeing prison.
Slave labour has never been a crime
Got the green papers?
You’re free to do what ya want
The free labor profited them more than the fines cost. Business in America.
I’ve almost cut out fast food completely since the pandemic. It’s because watching all these fast food franchises A) Make record profits while B) Not raising wages / pinch pennies until they are faced with raise wages or have no employees and finally C) Pretend to be the victims / complain away; hanging signs in the window about the labor shortage while not trying to address it at all is just…. Like, most customers are someone else’s employees, ya know? As an employee, watching the way MANY chain businesses / franchises seem to handle the labor shortage makes me angry, and not want to give them my support.
Young people today are NOT worth hiring. They are all pathetic phone-addicted narcissists that won’t do any actual work. And they are all too stoopid, so there is no point in attempting to train them to do anything.
If I ran a business today, I wouldn’t hire anybody under 30 years old. Anybody else would COST more than they would be worth.
They shouldn’t be fined. They should be shut down and closed for business.
Yeah but that’s not what you heard the fat white lady say in the video did you ?she had no problem with it, that’s her local McDonald’s she’s going through the drive-through everyday she doesn’t want it close down
Children are the only ones who can stand all day. McDonald’s is a job that requires you to stand for 8 hours….many older people have problems with that….some people in their 20s have problems with. Let the kids work.
Right wing 🤡
They broke the law, why no aresst?
So vile grotesque disturbing what US children and other children on US soil is going through.All the vile
Evil childhood abuses need to be at all cost aggressively meaningfully dealt with in the US. Children must be made a vital top priority with needed media coverage of those vile issues to bring them to the forefront in the US not who the f!$k Taylor swift or Chloe and Kim K no longer screwing. Good luck people of the human race☮️
When the kid files his taxes he can claim School supplies as a deduction
Re…Really?
And Republicans are working hard to remove child labor laws so these scenarios will happen more often and they will be legal unfortunately.
Makes sense. These politicians are destroying this country.
I think what everyone should be asking is where was the parents involvement in this? You should know everything about your kid if they live under your roof, protecting them from such dangers
Parents may have been employees without babysitters.
@SugarFree seems likely
Joe Biden, you did this.
Red states don’t care about kids.
explain how?
@jon edson Explain how not after you swallow that load of Biden’s. We’ll wait.
Red states don’t care.
Is this why Republicans are trying to lower the age to work jobs all over the place? Here in Wisconsin, they want to make it legal for kids to serve booze.
Only a fine the justice system is definitely not serious about protecting children or anyone for that matter
Much like the slaughterhouses recently busted for child labor violations. Maybe it’s time to boycott an industry that operates by exploiting animals, children and the environment.
McConnell’s McDonald’s
Well, you can marry your cousin at age 10 in Kentucky. Why not allow the happy couple to work at McDonald’s?
Shameful totally Shameful.
Mitch McConnell not taking care of his State
How about we make more burgers 🍔and 🍟 at home? No child labour needed.
10 year olds! Until 2 AM!?!
What kind of parents let their 10yr old child work til 2am???? I hope the parents are charged too
There isn’t a “labor shortage”, McDonald’s should try paying an actual wage
13? I thought most states didn’t allow anyone to work unless they were 14. Here in PA, that’s the case and almost every place I’ve shopped at won’t hire anyone under 16.
who says they didn’t lie about their age? ppl are getting desperate and sending their kids to work
I don’t know about lying. People have to show their ID and ss number to their employer for their I-9.
@Questcore 😂😂 it’s not like lying about your age to get a FB account.
@T J Not if they’re not paying them, or kidnapping them (the US has a massive market in Human Trafficking with Children and many of them do end up working in factories/mines etc..)
@T J yeah but these are also northern states, they don’t have to follow rules up there
Typical McDonalds Moment.
They were the workers children. There are times a parent might have to have their child dropped off because theyre working later than usual.
Oh Thank goodness they were not being indoctrinated by the gays or cross dressing, right?
Shut it down
MEME wise this is hilarious 😭😭
An average person would go to jail but corporations always get away with everything
The corporation isn’t responsible for this, the franchise is
think the problem is families desperate to pay rent so they’re sending their kids to work and lying on their age, this kind of thing happened in the mid 90s, maybe it’s time to bring back the child worker permit program if government isn’t going to do something about inflation
And they’re still going to blame Covid for why they’re short staffed😂
The main fault is the boss
Partly should be the employee (whom relentlessly clocked out) whom doesn’t recognize that the children might work on dangerous jobs.
Mexico is worseeee
And yet Americans keep accusing China of violating human rights, look at your own evil capitalism first, it’s not a free market.
Children of business owners are EXEMPT from child labor laws. It may not be legal to have other people’s kids working for you, but it is perfectly legal to have your own children working for you. However, I do agree that no children should be operating equipment that is dangerous, such as hot oil fryers.
I can guess one thing — these kids were far better workers than any of the pathetic millennial shitheads out there. I am so very thankful that I don’t need to hire anybody, because I wouldn’t hire anyone under 30 years of age. Todays kids are worthless, self-entitled brats who are phone-addicted and not worth paying 50 cents an hour, let alone federal minimum wage. They will end up COSTING you far more than whatever little bit of work you could get out of them.
When these kids have cars to get to school . Everyone else will be jealous
Agreed- when I was 14 I wanted to work, I wasn’t being forced
Labor laws benefit the people trying to profit, for the most part- not the employees
These kids want to work let them work because the druggies are lazy
I would rather my see my kid working then hanging out getting high
The parents know there kids are working
I was working for my dads pizza shop at nine years old I could almost run the place loved it
Ohh really ?!?! So for you, it’s ok that 10 years old work till 2 am for FREE? LIKE SLAVES?
same. not pizza, but a restaurant still. my brother’s and myself all worked for my parents. we weren’t paid wages but we had everything we needed and we’re blessed with whatever we wanted. we had much respect for our family buisness and what it provided us. I learned how to run a buisness, do payroll, inventory, food ordering, learned hospitality/people skills, how to manage all the paperwork that goes along with running a buisness, all at the ages of 11 and 12yrs old. I enjoyed every minute and thank my parents for the experience. one was in Kentucky also lol the other in Georgia. fun times…..
Family businesses what you would likely inherit is different then corporations.
Wait theres a limit on how many hrs you can work on a school night? I might havs been exploited 😅
I have no problem with this if these kids are old enough to get guns and commit armed robbery and carjackings then they are old enough to work.
Make America Great but only for Republican senators …. and for the rich.
The fine is a joke. It’s cheaper to pay the fine and just keep doing it
Did they paid the 10 years old kids with happy meals
Punishable by fine means legal for a fee, especially for big money franchises/corporations.
Not telling the full story… were these 10 y.o. with ID showing they are 10 y.o.
Or are they undocumented workers who used others’ IDs to say they are older despite really being 10 y.o.
That’s what happens in the meat plants, undocumented children use older peoples IDs so they can work.
Macdoogle hired chirren
I can’t believe they had 10 year olds working around hot grills and ovens that’s just terrible. I’m glad they got a huge fine and that they’ll never do something so stupid again.
😂🤣😭 And There’s Much More Where That Came From Like Why Do You All Think They’re Having All These Illegal Immigrants In 💕
They just ended the one way those kids in poor neighborhood could earn some money. Great job. The kids can all starve now.
Wow, those kids are trying to pay for there trip here to the US
The average McD franchise owner makes $250,000 – 400,000 a year.
Who and where are their parents!?!?!?!😡😡😡
Thank you for your reporting.
this is why the gop wants to force births, so they can employ their children to feed their fatasses big macs
probably illegal mexicans using their kids to clean?
10 year olds. 🤬
‘Make America great again’ is about getting America back to 1870s – 1920s labour laws not the 1945 – 1985 height of good socialism and unions.
Fined?!
Employers have to stop crying about “labor shortages” and realize that the real reason they can’t get employees is that they only offer a pay shortage.
I don’t even go there no more. 12 dollars for a meal. Should be 2 dollars
But at the end of the day it’s not actually a crime or problem for anybody just some 10 year olds being used as free slave labor that’s not a crime having slaves that’s just a fine you pay off of county official the news painted as a Rosy picture
Where are parents to the 10 year olds.
Is kentucky not one of the states pushing to lower the age limit for working?
Imo child labor was banned for a good reason 🤔 pretty f’d up that these red states are rolling back these basic laws
8 of the top 8 states with the highest child poverty rate? The Republican-led states of Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
And I can’t score a job past 30. Now I realize why
To legally hire a kid in the USA – they have to have a state issued work permit, state issued ID and a work permit signed by the local school board. If the child was 10 or 13 they were clearly not hired legally and were most likely the franchise owners kids.
Hold McDonald’s responsible. They’re the ones that let the franchisees open doors without McDonald’s training.
Edit: also charge the parents of the kids for allowing them to work night shift. Shame on them
Are the children going to be given the money from the fines??
And guess who helped them? Biden flying kids in the middle of the night…
This is how illegal immigration works. Democrat policies bring them in for votes, republicans states change labor laws to use them for slave labor, democrats claim we need these people to “pick our fruit” (actual quote from Nancy Pelosi), Republicans then act outraged when something like this happens and they use them for political fodder. They work in tandem to take advantage of these people. It’s the one of most inhumane practices in our country and we’re all complicit in it. If you’re okay with illegal immigration, this is literally what your advocating for.