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One week he's tearing down a mural at the Dept of Labor that (in part) depicts the bad old days when children had to work to help support the family, rather than get an education.
Now, La Page is backing legislation that will lift restrictions on child labor, increasing the hours minors are permitted to work from 20 to 32 per week. Coincidence???
The article doesn't mention it, but the new law would also create a minimum wage loop-hole for the kiddies. Instead of working for $7.25 per hour, they'd get the child-sized $5 per hour.
Gee, why would the GOP want to shove more low-pay, no experience workers into an already staggering employment market? And what about school?
The answers are simple- cheap labor helps their corporate masters. Why hire an adult at $7.25 an hour when you can geta kid for $5? And as for school- who needs an educated populace? They just start thinking too much, and ask too many questions. Better to keep 'um dependent on their crummy jobs, and in the dark (and start them early!)
Coming soon, courtesy of the GOP- the return of the 19th Century!
Kids at their first jobs don't know what they are doing and are not worth the adult minimum wage.
You do want the kids working to gain work experience and maturity.
If they get to work with the public it is a great way to develop their communication skills.
Now how young are the children? I bet they are all teenagers mostly over 16. If they are old enough to get a driver's permit, they are old enough to work some hours.
I can see a 17 year old working up to 32 hours if their Senior year at high school is a short schedule.
Work is good, there is no shame in any job.
Rather teach them to work than to learn to have their hand out in expectation of getting something from others for free.
Kids at their first jobs don't know what they are doing and are not worth the adult minimum wage.
You do want the kids working to gain work experience and maturity.
If they get to work with the public it is a great way to develop their communication skills.
Now how young are the children? I bet they are all teenagers mostly over 16. If they are old enough to get a driver's permit, they are old enough to work some hours.
I can see a 17 year old working up to 32 hours if their Senior year at high school is a short schedule.
Work is good, there is no shame in any job.
Rather teach them to work than to learn to have their hand out in expectation of getting something from others for free.
Surprise! There already is a sub-minimum wage law:
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides for the employment of certain individuals at wage rates below the minimum wage. These individuals include student-learners (vocational education students), as well as full-time students employed by retail or service establishments, agriculture, or institutions of higher education. Also included are individuals whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by a physical or mental disability, including those related to age or injury, for the work to be performed.
Employment at less than the minimum wage is designed to prevent the loss of employment opportunities for these individuals. Certificates issued by the Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division are required for this type of employment.
The youth minimum wage is authorized by the FLSA, which allows employers to pay employees under 20 years of age a lower wage for 90 calendar days after they are first employed. Any wage rate above $4.25 an hour may be paid to eligible workers during this 90-day period
Govt. website
There is plenty of research that shows that working more than 20 hours a week is bad for high school student's grades. I never heard of a HS senior attending school less than full time.
I never heard of a HS senior attending school less than full time.
It depends where you go to school.
At my old high school you could take PSEO, or college classes while still a high school student.
You could take 2 one hour college classes and be done with school for the day. So, it is possible. It is definitely not recommended to work near full time in school, though.
Sorry OP, Federal labor laws and minimum wage will prevent that.
Oh mean the labor laws and minimum wage laws brought about by "Marxist" labor unions you deplore so much and would love to dismantle. I'm sure you wouldn't mind doing away with labor laws and minimum wage if you could get away with it, after all I'm sure they "communist" in some way.
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