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Steve Mollman

A Chick-fil-A that paid workers with sandwiches instead of actual money was just fined by the Department of Labor

Chick-fil-A logo (Credit: Jakub Porzycki—NurPhoto via Getty Images)

A Chick-fil-A restaurant in North Carolina sparked outrage this summer by paying “volunteers” with sandwiches instead of money. Now, it’s been ordered by a federal agency to issue those workers paychecks. 

The Department of Labor on Monday released a statement saying that some employees at a Hendersonville outlet who were asked to direct traffic were paid with “meal vouchers rather than wages, in violation of minimum wage provisions.”

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