Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits
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
What a shit hole
Continuing to prove that if anything the stereotypes about how cruel and stupid the south is might be understating it.
looking at the appalled faces of onlookers after chucking a Molotov into the old downtown orphanage
“Heh… triggered much? OWNED, perhaps?”
Don't you have homework you should be doing?
Is it not clear that the pov guy is in the wrong or smth
Did you think it’s just some apathetic edgepost
Child workers or child care workers?
It sounds pretty scummy whatever one it is.
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.”