Young workers at five Wendy’s restaurants in Pennsylvania were illegally endangered and scheduled to work too many hours, according to federal authorities. Now the franchisee has been fined $15,449 in civil money penalties following a recent U.S. Department of Labor investigation. Investigators with the Wage and Hour Division found 15-year-old employees used the deep fryers that required manually raising and lowering fry baskets into hot oil.
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