Tennessee Manufacturer Fined For Illegally Hiring Underage Immigrant Children
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The Tennessee Conservative Staff –
Tuff Torq Corporation in Morristown has been fined for violating federal child labor laws after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of the Solicitor.
The company manufactures parts for John Deere, Toro, and Yamaha. The investigation, started in 2023, found that Tuff Torq had employed 10 immigrant children illegally, some as young as 14 years old.
According to reports, investigators visited the facility a number of times, and the violations were confirmed on January 23, 2024.
Investigators witnessed a child driving a “power-driven hoisting apparatus”. It is against the law for employees under the age of 18 to use this machinery. Children were also found to be working late at night in the facility, which operates on a 24-hour schedule.
The violations will cost Tuff Torq a $296,951 penalty, as well as $1.5 million set aside from profits brought in during the time that the children were illegally employed. Those additional funds will be dispersed to those immigrant children.
Yanmar Group, the Japan-based umbrella company that owns Tuff Torq Corporation, told Knox News that they did not hire the children directly but that they were sent to work through a “temporary workforce staffing agency.”
Yanmar also claims that the minors used fake IDs and names to be hired by the temporary agency.
In addition to the fines assessed for the violations, Tuff Torq Corporation will also have to implement better training for both staff and contractors, create a tip line for reporting of Fair Labor Standards Act violations, and allow surprise searches of the facility for three years.
They are also prohibited from contracting with staffing agencies that have has FSLA violations previously and they must require contractors to provide information regarding any violations.
Why would any of this money from fines go to these kids? I may be wrong but I think these kids possibly could have known that what they were doing wasn’t right. The adults responsible for getting the kids the documentation to work should pay a hefty price, monetary and jail time both
Hey, Cameron Sexton, guess your corporate bosses are using the illegals, you say aren’t a problem…
Seems to me that our government is simply rewarding the children and their families by gifting them a huge amount of money for doing something that is perfectly legal in their home countries. Truly mind boggling.
Well, we can thank RINO Bill Lee for being soft on Illegal Alien placement in TN!! The fines need to go to the cities he has allowed housing, feeding & schools!! Those cities know better than anyone who they are. Memphis however should NOT be added to that fund distribution though. They are the only declared Sanctuary City in TN. Because of Memphis the City of Jackson is experiencing Illegal infestation. I saw a bus load of Illegals dumped off in the closed Bed, Bath & Beyond parking lot a couple weeks ago at 7am.
Another of RINO Bill Lee’s placements – Humboldt will have to house, feed & provide social programs to include SNAP to at least 100 Illegals to work for the Tyson Chicken plant. Jobs that Humboldt Americans will be laid off from. Now these people will also be on the same social programs and SNAP. Who pays??? – U DO!! It’s interesting though you very often see large groups of them at Cracker Barrel for breakfast. The credit cards we are all funding must have a lot of $$ on them. Oh yes, Tyson is almost 70% owned by China. Tyson is in a consortium with a European company to manufacture food made from bugs. Swift Foods is also owned by China. Fun Fact – Several years ago China got caught putting poison in baby food to beef up the protein levels. They did not mind poisoning their own children. Who says they won’t do it here. Do we really want China owing our food suppliers?? I SAY BOYCOTT TYSON & SWIFT!!!
Asia will own the major U.S. food manufacturers if we don’t vote out this current Communist Administration in D.C. in November. Today, the 3 Stooges are in NYC soliciting $$$ for re-election of “S**t for Brains” instead of attending a Wake for the murdered NYC Police Officer. Price for a ticket $500,000, Price for a photo $100,000.
Yup, the minors used fake IDs and names to be hired by the temporary agency and lucifer’s dimmercrap Department of Labor’s Office of the Solicitor Rewards them.
Any company that hires temp agencies deserves whatever too.
What’s the Big deal? Little or nothing is said about American Companies getting the Wind fall profits for products made in China and other countries so they can have their $200 Nike shoes made by children and slave labor!!
What’s wonky here is that the unnamed temp agency (even the media must protect them) gets away with everything. Ironically, the underaged employees were likely not ‘direct hires’ (temp employees who are permanently hired at a lower rate after paying a premium to the temp agency), but more likely were employed by the temp agency itself. Temp agencies are nothing more than mediators (unions) that represent businesses in a geographic location for the purpose of suppressing wages there to create a profit for themselves in the ‘savings’. Notice how many of them place themselves on the local Chamber of Commerce. Notice how wages in locations like Morristown are stagnant while the fat cats get wealthier and gain power in the city. Temp agencies skirt the law and often break it by working behind the scenes to suppress wages while posing as Good Samaritans, helping workers connect with employers. Wouldn’t they connect regardless? What a scam!