The important constituents, like Hyundai.
One dollar > one vote. The political equation of our times.
I’m quite certain if you asked most Alabama voters, they support the actions of their representatives. They see child labor as a positive as long as it’s the disposable people getting exploited.
Arkansas is following their lead - child labor regulations are ‘too burdensome’… https://wapo.st/3yr0hTk]
Wow. ( shaking my head )
Whenever discussing labor protections ( or organized labor ) with RW-ers they almost always ( almost without fail, it seems ) trot out the same trite argument that, and I’m paraphrasing: “labor protections and/or unions may have been needed back around the late 19th/early 20th centuries, the pendulum has swung the other way, perhaps too far”.
And then, so deftly as they please, they rationalize pushing it back into the direction of robber-baron rule. Without a hint of irony.
along the same vain:
Well I called my congressman and he said quote
“I’d like to help you son, but you’re too young to vote”
Not a car factory; this time it’s a restaurant. Lots of restaurants. McRonald’s restaurants.
" Over 300 children were found working at the restaurants across several states, with 45 of the 62 McDonald’s restaurants located in Kentucky.
At one store in Louisville operated by Bauer Food LLC, two 10-year-olds were found to be working unpaid and as late as 2 a.m., the department said."
Dah-da-da-da-daa
Oh come now, that’s an exaggeration. It’s not like they had workers too young to be talking yet.
Besides, more labor is good for the soul. Arbeit macht frei after all.
Just in case it wasn’t obvious, I’m channeling a member of the anti-regulation wing of the KY legislature. These are not my actual opinions.
That’s the latest McDonald’s radio spot tagline. I should have included musical notes.
I knew what you meant after a bit of thought and before I posted.
But I liked my take on it for humorous purposes. The idea of some pig-ignorant pro-business legislator defending using pre-verbal kids as laborers was just too rich a target to pass up.
Yet another example of fine young go-getters in the workforce. Driving a forklift is a skill that kid will be able to use for the rest of their life. They should be grateful!
And a $30,000 fine is peanuts for a company like this.
They certainly saved more than that in wages. A profitable decision all around. Presumably some executive got a promotion for this.
This is terrible and all, but I bet the 11 year old thought driving a forklift was awesome. I would have at that age.
is driving a forklift more or less complicated than driving a car?
Thoughtful folks at the Brownstone Institute (better known for attacking vaccination and other measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic) want to repeal child labor laws so kids can have “exciting” employment experiences. They’re quite explicit about it.
You can’t accidentally hire an 11 year old. I don’t understand why they can’t do more than a $30k fine, since this was obviously willful disregard of the child labor laws.
A lot of business play Regulatory Roulette with the IRS, OSHA, DoLs, etc. precisely because the odds are in their favor. Paying fines, back pay, back taxes, etc. are just a gist of doing business with a positive rate of return.
For the first afternoon, sure. I’d have been overjoyed to give it a try.
After 40 hours times a few weeks, not so much.
cost of doing business