From last June re: Republicans rolling back these laws.
Last Friday, this concerted attack on child labor safeguards further expanded. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed an expansive bill enacting numerous changes to the state’s child labor laws, including:
allowing employers to hire teens as young as 14 for previously prohibited hazardous jobs in industrial laundries or as young as 15 in light assembly work;
allowing state agencies to waive restrictions on hazardous work for 16–17-year-olds in a long list of dangerous occupations, including demolition, roofing, excavation, and power-driven machine operation;
extending hours to allow teens as young as 14 to work six-hour nightly shifts during the school year;
allowing restaurants to have teens as young as 16 serve alcohol; and
limiting state agencies’ ability to impose penalties for future employer violations.
Multiple provisions in the new state law conflict with federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) prohibitions on “oppressive child labor” involving hazardous conditions or excessive hours that interfere with teens’ schooling or health and well-being.
Wow, i remember the AR law as being age/hours related, but not dangerous occs. I suppose IA’s law was marketed as “farm family labor” like the good ole days ( when accidental death rates were higher!), but in reality industry will be the largest user/abuser.
How do you strike a balance in responsibility for cases where persons present false documents for work? I’d support serious penalties for underage labor especially in dangerous occ, but how much effort is required for safe-harbor?
Good reminder that agriculture is carved out of many labor laws commonly assumed to be uniform across all work, and 12-year-olds can legally work on a farm (and especially many migrants, who get very little protection under the law, do work at that age).
These kids are commonly illegally abused - kept in fields longer than legal without breaks, water, etc.
I don’t know the exact verbiage of Ohio’s law, but I do know that the practical impact was that 16 & 17 year-olds at the pizzeria where I worked were not allowed to use the electric knife to cut croutons or garlic bread. We had to cut manually. Which I don’t think was any safer, actually, but it was the rule.
Oh it was a happy day when I could use the electric knife!!!
I think 16 & 17 year-olds couldn’t use the cheese shredder or deli slicer either but those tasks were part of the day prep whereas croutons & garlic bread were night prep and I pretty much only worked nights.
I just vaguely recall one Super Bowl Sunday carry out & delivery were slammed but the dining room was a ghost town and we ran out of shredded cheese. Several of the dining room staff were trying to help out by shredding more but we couldn’t figure it out and the manager walked in and was like “whoa! No… step back… you guys aren’t 18 so you can’t do that!!!”
Hahaha! Yeah, that’s a good point. At school I could use a circular saw, no problem. That’s not exploitation of minors because it’s educational.
But at work I couldn’t touch the electric knife.
Like if the day shift left it out I could not carry the unplugged knife from wherever they left it to its proper home on a shelf in the back room. I’d have to go find the manager or someone else over 18 and ask them to move it for me.
I believe it because different state laws, but I was definitely 15 working the deep fryer and grill at McDonald’s. Shouldn’t normally be too dangerous, but more than a cheese shredder. Especially the time that the basket holder snapped off and the entire assembly dropped into the fryer in front of me. Was very good luck it was winter so I had a sweater to block the hot oil from burning me.
I also sliced my finger open on a lemon slicer that was left under the soapy water… Still have a scar I can feel. For the next half-hour I had it wrapped in paper towel and then two gloves, taking orders and changing money with one hand while elevating the hand with the paper turning red. I was probably 16 then, maybe 17 Not that dishwashing should be dangerous, if idiots would only not leave knives under soap.
It’s also true that knives sitting in water is bad for them. (Though, potentially worse to be in the air with water on them?) Also, scraping against the bottom of a stainless steel sink is bad.
But invisible knives in a place you’re expected to put your hands and grab, very very bad. Never leave sharp knives in water for multiple reasons. Yeah, you can say “why don’t you just carefully feel around”, but please do that after working a 14-hour shift where you’re responsible for cleaning dishes as fast as possible between taking orders, which requires you to run 30 feet around a wall from sink to drive-through after drying your hands. There is no time to take the level of care required on the off-chance some idiot left sharps in there.
Especially in McDonalds where there are very few knives. I’m thinking, and might not remember something, but I don’t believe a knife is used in the entire process of making any McDonald’s food. So I naturally didn’t expect sharps in the sink, until somebody threw the lemon slicer (think a 6-8 piece apple slicer & corer) in there.
Cuts due to hidden sharp objects in the sink need to be eradicated!
I’ve seen it at other people’s houses and take out the sharp objects before they cause cuts in others.
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Yeah, I’m up in other’s basin-ness.
And if you have dishwasher safe knives, for the love of God put the pointy end DOWN!!!
Yes, they will get slightly cleaner pointy-end up.
But if you don’t overfill the dishwasher they will get plenty clean pointy end down and it is NOT worth gouging the fleshy part of your forearm when you reach in the dishwasher.
It must be discouraging to spend a majority of your life building the GOP, eventually becoming one of the most powerful members and Senate Majority Leader… only to take Trump’s shit for 8 years, watch the GOP convert to MAGA, and be drummed out of the party as a disgrace. As your mind is going and your body is beginning to fail you, it becomes apparent you are going to die hated by those you worked for your entire life, and they will piss on your grave.
Make America Gay Again with this subtle and classic design. Say something without saying anything at all at Thanksgiving with the family or oot and aboot.
Mark Robinson, on the basis of Trump’s endorsement, won the NC primary for governor.
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson declared “North Carolina Solidarity With Israel Week” and an upcoming day of prayer to support Israel amid its new conflict with Hamas — actions that drew sharp criticism from Democrats and Republican opponents, who pointed to Robinson’s history of remarks viewed by Jews and others as antisemitic.
Robinson spent most of Thursday’s press conference defending past remarks downplaying Nazism, promoting conspiracy theories about Jewish control over finance and Hollywood, and other statements. Robinson resisted calls to apologize for those remarks Thursday, saying he’s not actually antisemitic.
“There have been some Facebook posts that were poorly worded on my part,” he said, adding: “There is no antisemitism standing here in front of you.”
Robinson in a past Facebook post called reports of the Holocaust “hogwash.” In a separate 2017 post, he implied that the widely accepted figure of 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis is false.
In 2019 Robinson went on a podcast hosted by an alleged cult leader, where he endorsed the host’s conspiracy theory that Jewish bankers are one of the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” along with Muslims, China and the CIA.
“That’s exactly right,” Robinson told the podcast host. "It’s amazing to me that we live in this age of information where you can go online and you can find all this information, and it’s not hidden from anybody.”
Not that dishwashing should be dangerous, if idiots would only not leave knives under soap.