Senate Bill 918 would allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts.
Currently, teens are prevented from working earlier than 6:30 a.m. or later than 11 p.m.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is in favor of the bill.
“Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people,” DeSantis said at an immigration panel, according to the network. “And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.”
The bill, according to CNN, would also eliminate working time restrictions on 14- and 15-year-olds if they are home-schooled and end guaranteed meal breaks for teens aged 16 and 17.
It went in front of the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee on Tuesday, where it advanced with a 5 to 4 recommendation.
FIXED IT!
Since 2015, the DoL reported a 283% increase in child labor violations; and perhaps more shocking, 28 US states have introduced bills to weaken child labor laws, with 12 of those states enacting those laws since 2021
Project 2025 proposes eliminating protections against hazardous work for children. Specifically, Project 2025 calls on the U.S. Department of Labor to “amend its hazard-order regulations to permit teenage workers access to work in regulated jobs with proper training and parental consent.” In plain English, revising these “hazard-order regulations” means letting teens work in hazardous jobs.
It’s only going to be poor kids working these jobs. We’ve had protections for child labor for the past century, and these fuckers are trying to roll them back.
They are fucking evil.
Sure, Yale boy - I’m certain you really had to struggle to feed your family in your teens.
Senate Bill 918 would allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts.
Pfft…
Who needs mor than midle school edumucashun anysomeways…??
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Children are stealing our jobs!
Okay. So I guess the politicians’ kids will be first in line for those ‘jobs’, right?
Right???
Feed your children to the machine
They yearn for the mines
Republicans get incredibly screamy at you if you suggest that kids should have childhoods and go to school and not be exploited for labor. Corporations want child labor so they can drill the “work ethic” propaganda into them at a young age and not to mention, if they can get kids to work for them, they can get away with egregiously underpaying them.
