Rosauers is one of the larger regional supermarket chains in E. WA, N. ID, and MT.
_The U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday it had recovered more than $350,000 in back pay and damages for 602 employees of Spokane-based Rosauers Supermarkets.
Federal labor investigators said the company willfully violated labor laws at 23 of its locations. The grocer also must pay $72,000 in penalties for repeated child labor violations, according to a news release.
Rosauers also violated federal child labor regulations by employing minors, ages 16 and 17, to operate a hydraulic paper and box compactor at its Ridgefield, Washington, store.
The grocer was cited for similar child labor infractions at 10 stores in 1993, the department said._
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/aug/03/rosauers-to-pay-employees-over-350000-for-labor-vi/
What the hell? Employees need to be paid, and you can’t have kids operating heavy machinery on the job?? Must be the influx of Seattle people and Californians making it impossible to run a business here any more! <smirk>
It’s a bit odd, Rosauers markets are usually on the nicer side, and there’s a small one in the wealthy part of Spokane that’s almost like a co-op/‘natural’ market … Of all the regional chains I’d have thought they’d be among the last to get caught up in this particular kind of bad management, but I’d have thought wrongly.