Posted 3/26/2024, 5:20:27 PM
Tennessee Factory Fined for Hiring Underage Immigrant Workers
- Immigrant children as young as 14 found working illegally with dangerous equipment at a Tennessee lawn mower parts factory
- Company called Tuff Torq fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 underage immigrant children
- Tuff Torq required to set aside $1.5 million to help the affected child workers
- Children used fake names and documents to get jobs through a temporary staffing agency
- Labor Department cracking down on child labor violations, with a 152% increase in cases since 2018
