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Company: Paragon Contractors Corp.
Penalty: $200,000
Year: 2016
Date: December 8, 2016
Offense Group: employment-related offenses
Primary Offense: wage and hour violation
Secondary Offense: child labor or youth employment violation
Violation Description: A federal judge ordered Brian Jessop and Paragon Contractors Corp., to make an initial payment of $200,000 to compensate hundreds of children who were employed illegally and not paid for their labor on a pecan ranch between 2008-2013. Jessop and Paragon were said to have coordinated with the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints to use children and others in the church for field work.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Labor Department Wage and Hour Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Utah
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