This July 19, 2012, file photograph reveals a Chick-fil-A quick meals restaurant in Atlanta.

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This July 19, 2012, file photograph reveals a Chick-fil-A quick meals restaurant in Atlanta.

Mike Stewart/AP

A Chick-fil-A in North Carolina has been fined $6,450 for paying staff with meals as an alternative of cash and violating little one labor legal guidelines, the Department of Labor has announced.

An investigation by the DOL discovered that at a Chick-Fil-A in Hendersonville, N.C., three staff underneath 18 have been assigned hazardous duties, resembling working, loading and unloading the trash compactor.

“Protecting our youngest workers continues to be a top priority for the Wage and Hour Division,” mentioned Richard Blaylock, the district director for the division’s Raleigh, North Carolina’s Wage and Hour Division. “Child labor laws ensure that when young people work, the work does not jeopardize their health, well-being or educational opportunities. In addition, employers are responsible to pay workers for all of the hours worked and the payment must be made in cash or legal tender.”

Additionally, a number of staff on the location got duties like directing drive-thru site visitors and got meal vouchers in change, which is a violation of minimal wage requirements set by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Seven staff are owed $235 in again wages, the division mentioned.

In August, a Tampa, Florida, location was fined $12,478 after the company discovered that 17 staff between ages 14 and 15 have been working previous 7 p.m. and greater than three hours on college days.