“I would get out late and I would just shower and go to sleep and sometimes I wouldn’t get enough sleep and I wouldn’t make it to class the next morning and I would fall behind,&#…
for illegal child labor at Popeyes, Subway, Burger King and Frodo’s Pizza restaurants in South Carolina, with the Popeyes franchise owner ordered to pay $4,000 in penalties and back pay for breaking laws related to work hours and overtime.
“I would get out late and I would just shower and go to sleep and sometimes I wouldn’t get enough sleep and I wouldn’t make it to class the next morning and I would fall behind,” Romero told this news organization Thursday afternoon, an hour before a planned strike and protest outside the shuttered restaurant.
Romero said she started at the Popeyes in February as a cashier, mostly in the drive-through. She alleged in her complaint to the labor commissioner that she was victimized by a child labor violation about once every two weeks. She was once called into work at noon on a school day because the restaurant was short staffed, so she skipped school for the rest of the day, she alleged.
“One day while I was working he pepper sprayed an unhoused woman who was refusing to leave and I watched her run out covering her face. Another day when I arrived to pick up my check there were ambulances around because he had pepper sprayed someone else.”
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