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US company agrees to fine for hiring children to clean slaughterhouses (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Today I learned that you can “agree” to fines.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Well, the alternative is to fight it in court.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It’s part of getting a traffic ticket. Agree, confess, mail your check to the judge. Or take time off to show up and contest it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yep. Once again they prove that ‘the law’ only applies to the poor. If you or I killed some one its life in prison, if a corporation kills someone in pursuit of profits its a fine. When will prison/the death penalty come for the corporate world poisoning the plant from unchecked greed?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You've never heard of a consent decree or plea bargain? They're common legal tools to avoid lengthy and expensive trials.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The child labour fees plus the fine probably works out cheaper than employing off legal working age workers, so it isn’t really a fine.