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Feds: Crumbl Cookies violated child labor laws at Minnesota store, others
Crumbl Cookies violated baby labor legal guidelines at one in every of its Minnesota areas, in accordance with the U.S. Division of Labor.
The federal division introduced this week that an investigation discovered 11 Crumbl Cookies areas in the USA had 46 minors working in unsafe situations.
One of many areas named is in West St. Paul, situated at 2037 S. Robert St., the place two minors had been uncovered to unlawful working situations.
The federal investigation stated the violations throughout all 11 areas embrace having youthful workers work longer hours than they’re legally permitted, in addition to working ovens and different doubtlessly harmful equipment.
Many of the minors had been aged 14 and 15, in accordance with the Division of Labor.
The corporate, which makes and delivers freshly baked cookies, obtained a tremendous of just below $1,500 for the violations on the West St. Paul location, which is operated by Alpine Nation Street LLC. A complete of $57,854 in penalties has been levied towards 11 franchisees in whole.
The opposite areas the place violations occurred embrace 4 in Utah, three in California, and one every in New Hampshire, Tennessee and Washington.
“Employers should be certain that part-time employment doesn’t jeopardize the protection or schooling of younger employees,” stated Wage and Hour Division Regional Administrator Betty Campbell in Dallas. “It’s the accountability of each employer who hires minor employees to know baby labor legal guidelines, and adjust to them or doubtlessly face pricey penalties.”
The Honest Labor Requirements Act, handed in 1938, prohibits minors below the age of 14 from working and 14- and 15-year-old workers from working later than 9 p.m. from June 1 by Labor Day, and previous 7 p.m. the rest of the 12 months.
Minors at this age aren’t allowed to work longer than three hours on a college day, eight hours on a non-school day or greater than 18 hours per week.
As well as, the federal legislation forbids minors from “occupations thought-about hazardous.”
The Utah-based Crumbl Cookies was based in 2017 and has opened greater than 600 areas in 47 states. Twelve at the moment exist in Minnesota, predominantly within the metro space.
Carry Me The Information reached out to the Crumbl Cookies West St. Paul location and Alpine Nation Street, LLC for remark Thursday.
It issued the next remark to different media shops:
At Crumbl, we’re dedicated to sustaining a secure and welcoming work atmosphere for all of our franchisees and their workers. We take any violation of federal labor legal guidelines very critically. We had been deeply upset to be taught {that a} small variety of our franchised areas had been discovered to be in violation of those legal guidelines.
We’re actively working to know what has occurred at these particular retailer areas and can take acceptable motion to make sure that all of our franchisees are totally compliant with the legislation. We apologize to any of our franchisees’ workers who could have been affected by this example and wish to guarantee the general public that we’re dedicated to upholding the best requirements of integrity and compliance at each Crumbl location.
In 2022, the Wage and Hour Division discovered greater than 3,800 minors employed in violation of kid labor legal guidelines. That is a 37% improve from the earlier 12 months, in accordance with the division. A complete of 688 minors had been discovered to be working in hazardous occupations, a 27% spike from 2021.
Detroit’s next series was upended by another turnover of sorts, this time a stop on fourth-and-1 that was caused by Jonathan Bullard tipping Goff’s pass at the line of scrimmage. It returned the ball to Minnesota with three-and-a-half minutes left in the first half – and a prime opportunity to double-dip.
But they botched that chance, too, tasking Reichard with another field goal after fading at Detroit’s 13.
“This game could look differently in the end, very easily, with one or two more plays down in the red zone, being successful, and the way that works with momentum, and the way that works for the energy of your whole team. I thought the guys fought. I thought they battled,” Kevin O’Connell said. “They answered the bell, in that first half, turning the football over, giving us ops, getting stops. … We were going to go down there and try to get seven points, and we just didn’t do it. And you’re not going to beat a team like that, regardless of some of the other metrics in the game, when the weighty downs kind of go the way it did, and weighty as they get. They don’t get more weighty than scoring plays.”
Minnesota’s inability to capitalize offensively lingered in the third quarter, when Smith plucked an overthrown ball for Williams out of mid-air. Again, Reichard kicked a field goal.
To understand how well Minnesota’s defense played early look at the difference in second-quarter performance – a good indicator being it has been the most productive frame for the Lions this season in terms of yards (120.9) and points (10-plus) – Sunday and Week 7: The Vikings yielded 65 yards on 18 plays (3.6 avg.), and just three points, versus 202 yards on 17 plays (11.9 avg.) and 21 points in October.
Eventually, however, Gibbs stole the show.
The second-year phenom compiled 170 scrimmage yards and scored all four of Detroit’s touchdowns. He did it via a blend of untouchable speed, uncanny vision between the tackles and a serious finishing burst.
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Vikings vs. Lions score, live updates: Detroit, Minnesota face off for the NFC's No. 1 seed in 2024 NFL finale
Game 272 of the 2024 NFL regular season is a special one. In a year where so much of the playoff dust settled early, one Week 18 game stands out, not just for this season but in the history of the league, with the 14-2 Minnesota Vikings taking on the 14-2 Detroit Lions in the first regular-season game between two teams with 14 wins. The stakes are simple but extremely high: the winner is the NFC North champion and the No. 1 seed, with a first-round bye in the loaded NFC; while the loser is the No. 5 seed and will open the playoffs on the road during wild-card weekend. If the game should end in a tie, Detroit would win the division and be the 1-seed, thanks to winning the first matchup between the teams back in Week 7.
No matter how the game ends, this will be the first time in league history a wild-card team will have 14 wins. The only time a wild-card team had 13 wins in a season was 1999, when the 13-3 Tennessee Titans finished second in the AFC Central to the 14-2 Jacksonville Jaguars. Tennessee won the AFC championship game in Jacksonville that season before losing to the Rams in Super Bowl 34.
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Aaron Glenn’s secondary is going to be undeniably tested on Sunday night against the Vikings.
And it’s not just because Minnesota signal-caller Sam Darnold is enjoying a breakthrough campaign, with a career-best 35 touchdowns and 4,153 yards to his name. Instead, it’s also due to the Vikings’ deep receiving corps, which is highlighted by Jordan Addison and Justin Jefferson.
Addison has caught 62 balls for 875 yards and nine touchdowns through 14 games this season, while Jefferson leads the way with 100 catches, 1,479 yards and 10 touchdowns.
Jefferson has cemented himself as not only Minnesota’s best pass-catcher, but also one of the most prolific receivers in today’s game.
Now in his fifth NFL season, the LSU product has amassed north of 1,000 receiving yards each year, including a league-best 1,809 yards in 2022. During the aforementioned ‘22 campaign, he also caught an NFL-high 128 passes, and recorded a league-best 106.4 receiving yards per game and earned first-team All-Pro honors.
Fast-forward to the 2024 campaign, a season in which he’s found himself catching passes from Darnold. Jefferson has established a tremendous rapport with the former journeyman quarterback, and so much so that he ranks No. 2 among all pass-catchers in receiving yards this season.
Additionally, in his first meeting with the Lions this season (Week 7), he caught seven balls for 81 yards and a score. At that juncture, Detroit’s secondary was still equipped with its top cornerback, Carlton Davis. That is no longer the case, though, as Davis suffered a fractured jaw in Week 15 against the Bills and hasn’t played a single snap since.
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Jefferson has a chance to feast on Sunday against a Lions cornerbacks group that is now led by rookie Terrion Arnold and veteran defensive back Amik Robertson. Arnold and Robertson have each struggled this season, with zero interceptions to their names and Pro Football Focus pass-coverage grades of 48.8 and 62.1, respectively.
I’m expecting Jefferson to be a matchup nightmare for both Arnold and Robertson on the outside, as well as for the Lions’ secondary as a whole. Detroit has been subpar at defending the pass all season long. In fact, it’s allowed the second-most passing yards to opponents (4,006), plus the most yards per game to opposing wide receivers (per PFF).
Glenn had high praise for the standout Vikings receiver earlier this week.
“I think he’s one of the toughest guys playing in that position,” the Detroit defensive play-caller expressed. “He’s an old-school player, in my opinion. It’s almost like he’s a defensive guy playing receiver.”
In nine career games against the Lions, Jefferson has produced 69 receptions for 1,154 yards and four touchdowns. Four of those games have come at Ford Field, in which the game-changing wideout has amassed a staggering 43 catches for 730 yards and two scores.
On Sunday, I’m predicting the three-time Pro Bowl receiver to finish with eight catches for 98 yards and a touchdown.
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