10mo ago

Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits

www.nola.com 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

Yay.... more bad news from the land of the free.

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Failed state.

“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.” — Matt Gaetz had a similar argument.
- Young adults indeed. Let them vote then.
  
  LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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.
“The sheep want to jump in my mouth” Mr. Wolf claimed.
“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”
Ohhhh. Just harming young adults. Totally Clean conscience there
- Give me a break
  lmao no, this cant be real x3
  
  "Give me a break" is probably what all the workers are saying.
  Who the hell wants to work through lunch and not get a break? Who the hell thinks that's more productive or better in any way?
  No! We want to work more for less benefits!!!! Let's just skip nourishment and a brief rest, that won't backfire at all. /s

Why are "children" working to begin with?
- If you are under 18 then you are considered a "child" in labor terms. Different states have different laws about people under 18 and work eligibility. In Illinois, I was able to get a job at 15 with a work permit that my school had to sign and very strict rules about what I can and cannot do. They were allowed to pay me less than minimum wage as long as they followed those rules. I don't think it's wrong to let teens get jobs and start learning how the working world works and also make a bit of money for whatever they might use it on. But um... Maybe they deserve a lunch break?
  
  Lol. Hard agree.
- They yern for the smoothie king
  
  Keep your damn smoothies! Give us back our mines!

What a shithole

What the fuck is wrong with republicans?
- How much time do you have?
  
  It takes almost no time to say everything is wrong with these people, and ~~the American business model, health care model, pay model~~, uhhh,, the American everything model is not only wrong, but deliberately cruel and evil, besides.
- Their very existence.

These guys just... wake up and think to themselves "what is the most comically evil cartoon villain thing I can do to hurt others today?". Surreal.

So anyway, I just want to check and see if anyone else noticed what's going on here: to the extent that the comments are about specific policy (as opposed to generalized outrage at how cartoonishly evil the Republicans are), they're about the "cutting lunch breaks for child workers" part.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that part was added mostly as a distraction to make it easier to push the unemployment benefit and workers comp cuts through (e.g. by offering to ditch the lunch breaks part while keeping the other stuff and pretending it's some kind of fair compromise, when what really should've happened is binning all of it).
- 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.
  It's just some greedy asshole who wants those 14 year olds to work a little harder and a little cheaper. Breaks cost money.
  Next time read the article.
  
  The bit about worker’s compensation is in the article.
- That'd at least be something. But republicans in my state actually are cartoonishly evil and that part is staying in so one senator can justify abusing some kids.

If you have to cut lunch breaks for anyone, especially children then this is a failed state.

Ok Republican Party needs to be removed from everywhere. This is beyond.

The orphan crushing machine doesn't take a break today it seems.
- I've known about the Orphan Crushing Machine for a while, but it takes news stories like this to make one take a step back and realize that there are people actively maintaining and upgrading the Orphan Crushing Machine. jfc. Who wakes up and says, "crushed orphans are vital to my business plans," with no sense of irony?

I shall introduce a law allowing gruel in the workhouse to be replaced with watered down sawdust.
- That'll never pass ... without some moderate lobbying effort.
  
  In Louisiana, not even THAT is likely necessary. As far as I'm informed, everything outside of New Orleans is almost as awful as their neighbors to the East Mississippi AKA Worst of the United States 207 years running.

Canada Labour Code
169.1 (1) Every employee is entitled to and shall be granted an unpaid break of at least 30 minutes during every period of five consecutive hours of work. If the employer requires the employee to be at their disposal during the break period, the employee must be paid for the break.
- Meal breaks and rest periods
  You must have a meal break of 60 minutes after 5 hours' work. A written agreement may lower this to 30 minutes and do away with the meal break if you work less than 6 hours a day. You must have a daily rest period of 12 continuous hours and a weekly rest period of 36 continuous hours. Unless otherwise agreed, this must include Sundays.
  Sick Leave
  You can take up to 6 weeks' paid sick leave during a 36-month cycle.
  During the first 6 months of starting at a company, you can take 1 day's paid sick leave for every 26 days you’ve worked. An employer may want a medical certificate before paying you when you’re sick for more than 2 days at a time or more than twice in 8 weeks.
  This is in South Africa.. The US is fucked up and sets a bad example and precedent for the rest of the world. Corporate right wing America unfortunately seems to be a mind virus that's spreading..
- Australian rules are similar. I believe we are required to take a break of at least half an hour after every five hours of work. 1 hour is the standard lunch entitlement
  We also have an unwritten right to two 15 minute paid breaks for morning and afternoon tea which will slowly disappear as fewer and fewer people use it

Finally, an example of conservatives tackling the hard issues important to everyday Americans! /s

The cruelty is the point.

This is a first-term asshole who just happens to own a bunch of Smoothie King franchises.
All the legislature did was move it out of committee for a House vote. Still has to pass the Senate and Govenor. This is not a done deal.
- Still means there is a committee who thinks this is a good principle to build a country upon.

"We can't slave away other races, neither other genders, without maybe getting into trouble, who are the next most vulnerable target that nobody gives a shit about guys?" Holy shit man. These dudes are just evil and lazy as shit. Instead of trying they just want to do things the easy way, by fucking up someone else, every time since forever. Pathetic accommodated slavers. Probably have small dicks as well.

Hard at work unbecoming a first world country.
- Well yeah, that too, but what does Trump and the Russian Traitor caucus trying to pull us out of NATO have to do with it? This is more about regressing from "developed" to "developing."
  
  "First world" doesn't refer to the division between western bloc and eastern bloc anymore. The Three Worlds Model isn't used for modern international relations. Now the term "first world" refers to highly developed industrialized countries, i.e. basically a capitalist country with a stable economy and a high standard of living. Many US allies (including some NATO members) aren't first world, although developed countries tend to be NATO-aligned (except Hong Kong/Macau, if you count those, and Singapore). "Third world" also certainly doesn't refer to unaligned countries anymore.

That's because kids work harder on an empty stomach.
- They probably deserve the right to work with an empty stomach
  
  The only rights they have are when they get fucked by right winged pedos

It’s like they saw “oppression Olympics” mentioned somewhere, completely misunderstood what it meant, and decided “let’s go for the gold.”

Children not only yearn for the mine, they yearn to work for free and starve.
How commendable! #PrettyPleaseDontJoinaUnion

"Everyone deserves the freedom to work themselves to death!"

There is nothing like a state that wants things to go back to the good old days where children were seemingly no different than indentured servants (or slaves if they weren't white as pure cotton) if your family was poor.

Someone is jealous from China !
- Children work in china has been on decline of years

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