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Nearly two dozen Wendy’s restaurants in Pennsylvania have been fined for violating child labor laws. According to the Department of Labor in Industry (L&I), GCWen Management — The operator of 21 Wendy’s locations — is facing 766 violations at restaurants in Bucks, Montgomery and Chester counties in 2023.
L&I’s Bureau of Labor Law Compliance launched an investigation into the Wendy’s locations in Pennsylvania after receiving a complaint about injuries of working children. These multitude of violations is costing the management team a total of $300,000 dollars. L&I listed 766 the violations that these restaurants exhibited.
Child labor law violations include
- 432 violations of failure to provide breaks that included 81 children.
- 18 violations of not securing a work permit to hire a child that included 19 children.
- 98 violations of failure to announce employment or employment change to the child’s school that involved 98 children.
- 10 violations of not receiving permission from the child’s parents that involved 10 children.
- 208 violations of excessive hours worked in a given week that involved 34 children.
Wendy’s locations fined
- 3020 Veterans Highway in Bristol
- 201 Second Avenue in Collegeville
- 1013 West Ridge Pike in Conshohocken
- 400 North Main Street in Doylestown
- 1710 Limekiln Pike in Dresher
- 186 Eagleview Boulevard in Exton
- 1260 Bethlehem Pike in Hatfield
- 415 Easton Road in Horsham
- 600 South Broad Street in Lansdale
- 1758 Allentown Road in Lansdale
- 1011 Bethlehem Pike in Montgomeryville
- 227 Plaza Boulevard in Morrisville
- 590 South Trooper Road in Norristown
- 2815 Dekalb Pike in Norristown
- 1540 Egypt Road in Phoenixville
- 1075 Township Line Road in Phoenixville
- 306 South Henderson Road in King of Prussia
- Building 59 North West End Boulevard in Quakertown
- 70 Buckwater Road, Suite 1050 in Royersford
- 752 Route 113 in Souderton
- 3413 Horizon Boulevard in Trevose
The GCWen management team members at each of these Wendy’s locations are required to complete child labor training provided by L&I as terms of the settlement agreement.
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