• CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    I feel like important context is that they were kids of the manager. That changes this from a bad corporate governance and exploitation of labor situation to something else: a bad parenting/child abuse, bad corporate governance and exploitation of labor situation.

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      4 months ago

      The more important context IMO is that the 10 year olds were just the youngest of over 300 children who were working later than permitted.

    • randompasta@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      I’ve seen fast food employees have their kids in the dining room just hanging out. The employee is trying to manage them as well as doing their job. I see this as an issue with lack of child care options.

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        4 months ago

        But that’s not what this is. FTA:

        Bauer Food LLC said in a statement that the two 10-year-olds are children of a night manager and “were not approved by franchisee organization management to be in that part of the restaurant.”

    • GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      There’s potentially a much more bleak explanation that could be the case since this reminded me of a moment in my childhood.

      McDonald’s management doesn’t sound lucrative enough of a gig for childcare on top of the cost of survival with 2 kids, this could simply be a way for them to watch their kid and continue earning a living. I spent a few days “helping” at a grocery store for that reason when I was 8 or 9ish, though during the day and not at 2am, and my mom got in trouble for doing that too I think, because then I just stayed home alone for the summer after that.

      Doesn’t make it much better, it would just turn it into bad parent/child abuse, because of exploitation of the labor class.