{"id":216,"date":"2008-11-09T18:15:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T22:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=216"},"modified":"2008-11-09T18:15:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T22:15:13","slug":"massachusetts-mcdonalds-franchise-cited-for-child-labor-law-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2008\/11\/massachusetts-mcdonalds-franchise-cited-for-child-labor-law-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts McDonald&#8217;s Franchise Cited for Child Labor Law Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">The office of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/?pageID=cagopressrelease&amp;L=1&amp;L0=Home&amp;sid=Cago&amp;b=pressrelease&amp;f=2008_11_07_mcdonalds_fine&amp;csid=Cago\" target=\"_blank\">cited<\/a> a Whitinsville, Massachusetts McDonald\u2019s franchise for child labor law violations. After receiving complaints, auditors found that 16 and 17-year olds were working between the hours of midnight and 6 am and working more than 9 hours in a single day, both in violation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/legis\/laws\/mgl\/gl-149-toc.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts General Laws, c.149<\/a>. There are other limitations on employing children under 18 and further restrictions on employing children under 16. We strongly recommend that you contact your labor attorney if you employ minors to ensure compliance with your state\u2019s child labor laws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The office of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has cited a Whitinsville, Massachusetts McDonald\u2019s franchise for child labor law violations. After receiving complaints, auditors found that 16 and 17-year olds were working between the hours of midnight and 6 am and working more than 9 hours in a single day, both in violation of Massachusetts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[525,526,13,523,524],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}