3 Utah Cold Stone Creamery stores fined $42K for violating child labor laws

LAYTON — Three Cold Stone Creamery locations in Utah have been fined $42,714 by the U.S. Department of Labor for violating federal child labor laws, the department announced Thursday.

The Sweet Place LLC — operating as Cold Stone Creamery — violated federal law by allowing minors aged 14 to 15 years old to work too late in the day and for too many hours in a week while school was in session, the labor department said in a statement.

The restaurants that have been fined are located in Ogden, Clinton and Layton and the employer told the department that it “relied on erroneous legal guidance,” advising it to follow less restrictive state guidelines rather than federal guidelines for employing minors, leading to the penalties, the department said.

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