Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contractor pays $1.5M fine

Re:Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contr... by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:56PM (#35140656)

>how do you propose we catch them?

Incentives and chilling effects.

Automatic 30 days in jail for everyone who oversaw a minor get hired, per day worked. If more than five minors or across multiple managerial departments consider it systemic and send all overseeing managers and their managers to jail for 30 days per minor per shift worked. Strict liability and mandatory minimums are effective against white collar crimes unlike crimes of desperation.

Over ten kids and the company should be seized, all management imprisoned and all assets auctioned off. Give the legal employees enhanced unemployment to bridge the disruption to their employment.

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Re:Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contr... by nightpool on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:33PM (#35145503)

I think you may have misread my comment. It had nothing to do with the hiring of minors

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Re:Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contr... by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @01:34PM (#35155217)

TFA is about hiring minors and your comment is about identity verification. My comment is perhaps a bit more specific than yours but as it’s directly related to the subject at hand, is relevant and on topic to your question.

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Re:Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contr... by nightpool on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:25AM (#35167988)

My question was in response to someone saying "It should be trivial to solve illegal immigrants working in our system and anybody who says it isn't is profiting directly from the problem". Not exactly sure what point you're making by jumping back to the original topic of the article instead

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