Anything to lower payroll costs, eh? Hire teens to do their parents' jobs. The era of low-paid, uneducated serfdom comes closer.
If you’re a 16- or 17-year-old looking to make some good money this summer, you could be in luck.
Just in time for the long summer break, the Republican-controlled Legislature is expected to vote this week on a proposal that would roll back the state’s child labor laws, making them the same as federal child labor laws that govern 16- and 17-year-old workers. The move would expand the number of hours 16- and 17-year-olds could work in any given week and on any given day, essentially treating them no differently than adults in the eyes of the law.
According to an analyst with the Wisconsin Fiscal Bureau, the new law would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to work an unlimited number of hours per week. Current law caps the number of hours they can work at 32 hours on a partial school week; 26 hours during a full school week; and 50 hours during non-school weeks, such as over spring break or during the summer.
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Many teens will chose fulltime work over education, ensuring they will be unable to secure higher paying jobs as adults and that there will always be a large pool of cheap, unskilled labor for CHEEP LABOR CONSERVATIVES to exploit.
