What Is The Problem With Kids Working Late Nights??

[hadit]

"The bill would allow sixteen and seventeen-year-olds to work until 9:00 p.m. during the school year and until 11:00 p.m. over the summer."

Hmmm...............It's in the bill.
Fake bill?

What in the bill will result in children working a shift in the coal mine until 2 am? You're wailing about Republicans wanting children to do that, so what in the bill allows for or compels that?

 

[struth]

What in the bill will result in children working a shift in the coal mine until 2 am? You're wailing about Republicans wanting children to do that, so what in the bill allows for or compels that?

nothing.

 

[struth]

Please take an economics and civics class.

you are talking to a clown that thought the legislative branch and executive branch ran the judicial branch

 

[hadit]

nothing.

Exactly my point. The hysterical bloviating is just that, bloviating.

 

[Smokin' OP]

What in the bill will result in children working a shift in the coal mine until 2 am? You're wailing about Republicans wanting children to do that, so what in the bill allows for or compels that?

Nothing like that, in the bill.
Employers might have a different "interpretation", then pay a fine and carry on, until they get caught again.
Wash, rinse and repeat.

 

[hadit]

Nothing like that, in the bill.
Employers might have a different "interpretation", then pay a fine and carry on, until they get caught again.
Wash, rinse and repeat.

So the problem then is NOT with "Republicans" as you were screeching. "Republicans" DON'T want little kids working in the coal mines until 2:00 am. Glad we set that straight and you can stop caterwauling about them now.

 

[surada]

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It's a mistake to impose US culture, beliefs and laws on the Congo. It's a recipe for disaster over and over again.

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[Foxfyre]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/business/mcdonalds-child-labor-louisville/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_content=2023-05-03T13%3A15%3A04

"Two 10-year-old children were found working at a Louisville McDonald’s restaurant — sometimes until 2 a.m. — the US Department of Labor said Tuesday. The revelation was part of an investigation into the child labor law violations in the Southeast. The agency also found three franchisees that own more than 60 McDonald’s locations in Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland and Ohio, “employed 305 children to work more than the legally permitted hours and perform tasks prohibited by law for young workers,” the Labor Department said in a statement.

“Investigators from the department’s Wage and Hour Division found two 10-year-old workers at a Louisville McDonald’s restaurant among many violations of federal labor laws committed by three Kentucky McDonald’s franchise operators,” the release said. “Investigators also determined two 10-year-old children were employed – but not paid – and sometimes worked as late as 2 a.m.”


Exactly what is the problem with 10 year olds working until 2 am? Really? You telling me these kids don't have the stamina and energy to work late nights and go to school tomorrow? Also, these kids are learning something very important that schools won't teach them...the value of hard work...Now I don't agree that the kids should work for free, they should have been paid...


However, from reading the story...these kids were the children of a manager, why should they be paid anything? Would you pay your child to mow the lawn or take out the trash? So why would this person pay their kids to work at the store they managed? This is just the left trying to stop children from being put the work and keeping them lazy, playing videos games and being indoctrinated by TV and social media.

My ten year olds always got too sleepy to stay up that late, but they did often work side by side with us when that was feasible and they were happy to do it. Did they get paid? No. But they had a solid roof over their heads, nutritious food to eat, socially fashionable clothes, were given every opportunity they wanted in music, dance, Little League, Scouts, etc. etc. and had all the books they could read.

And both grew up with strong work ethic and a strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability and have been far more financially successful than my husband and me.

I know many modern day parents don't believe in regimented bedtimes. I don't really approve but have no knowledge of it being specifically harmful to kids. We certainly allowed ours to be up past their bedtimes now and then.

Instead of jumping on parents for having their kids at work with them and allowing them to help, the 'woke' people might start looking at what they are forcing on kids: CRT, transgendering, allowing clandestine grooming, force feeding socialist/Marxist dogma, making their God unwelcome in schools etc., preventing them from learning any history, economics, etc. that doesn't fit the 'woke' agenda. That is REAL child abuse.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

My ten year olds always got too sleepy to stay up that late, but they did often work side by side with us when that was feasible and they were happy to do it. Did they get paid? No. But they had a solid roof over their heads, nutritious food to eat, socially fashionable clothes, were given every opportunity they wanted in music, dance, Little League, Scouts, etc. etc. and had all the books they could read.

And both grew up with strong work ethic and a strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability and have been far more financially successful than my husband and me.

I know many modern day parents don't believe in regimented bedtimes. I don't really approve but have no knowledge of it being specifically harmful to kids. We certainly allowed ours to be up past their bedtimes now and then.

Instead of jumping on parents for having their kids at work with them and allowing them to help, the 'woke' people might start looking at what they are forcing on kids: CRT, transgendering, allowing clandestine grooming, preventing them from learning any history, economics, etc. that doesn't fit the 'woke' agenda. That is REAL child abuse.

The left doesn't want us raising self-reliant children. The more self-reliant, the less they'll need social programs when they turn into adults.

 

[Foxfyre]

The left doesn't want us raising self-reliant children. The more self-reliant, the less they'll need social programs when they turn into adults.

I don't know if most consciously think they're doing that, but for sure their policies and agenda have that effect.