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FILE PHOTO: A person walks next to a closed McDonald’s restaurant, one of all 29 locations that were closed following the deaths of two teenaged employees, in Lima, Peru December 18, 2019. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Peru´s labour watchdog has found McDonalds Corp´s (MCD.N) Latin America franchisee Arcos Dorados (ARCO.N) guilty of six “very serious” violations of local safety and health laws following the deaths of two employees in a restaurant kitchen.
The Ministry of Labour´s regulating body (Sunafil) proposed that the company be fined $254,000 over the deaths.
Alexandra Porras, 18, and Carlos Campo, 19 were electrocuted last Sunday in Pueblo Libre, a district of the capital Lima, while cleaning the kitchen.
Reporting by Marco Aquino, writing by Aislinn Laing; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama
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