A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans
  • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Continuing to prove that if anything the stereotypes about how cruel and stupid the south is might be understating it.

  • WIIHAPPYFEW [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    52·
    2 years ago

    looking at the appalled faces of onlookers after chucking a Molotov into the old downtown orphanage

    “Heh… triggered much? OWNED, perhaps?” smuglord

  • Baggins@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Child workers or child care workers?

    It sounds pretty scummy whatever one it is.

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyzOP
      7·
      2 years ago

      First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks. He questioned why Louisiana has the requirement while other states where he owns Smoothie King locations, such as Mississippi, don’t have them, and criticized people who have questioned the bill’s purpose.

      “The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”