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title: "Stop Exploiting Teenage Workers!"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/e987662b-30b5-432e-9b51-a79c551a75c4
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/stop-exploiting-teenage-workers-2714750
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
topics: ["Operations"]
published: 2021-01-19T21:16:15.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T22:34:08.469Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/bf00f6a273a8daee2e50f12146617a195853.jpg
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# Stop Exploiting Teenage Workers!

**TL;DR:** The article emphasizes the importance of avoiding legal issues when hiring teenage workers, citing fines imposed on restaurants.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2021-01-19. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/stop-exploiting-teenage-workers-2714750).*

## Story

It's very important to avoid legal issues when hiring teenage workers. Some of the country’s biggest restaurant chains have made news for failing to heed a simple message: STOP EXPLOITING TEENAGE WORKERS.

The fines we are seeing with restaurants across the country are staggering, but that is what happens when you don’t follow the rules.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- labor (topic)
- law (topic)
- fines (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/stop-exploiting-teenage-workers-2714750). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/e987662b-30b5-432e-9b51-a79c551a75c4).