Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US
phillaholic@lemm.ee 5 months agoAll this constant hyperbole for every single issue is exhausting. No one is defending sending 13 years olds out to replace someone’s roof. We’re talking about “unskilled” labor like taking orders, stocking shelves, running registers etc.
workerONE@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Immigrant children are already being exploited and dying doing roofing work. You want to put children in the workforce but they would not be safe. If we had a pilot program in place and had some successful results that would be a different situation, but we have kids working 30 feet in the air with no safety gear. nytimes.com/…/roofing-children-immigrants.html
phillaholic@lemm.ee 5 months ago
What’s your point? Those things are already illegal. The second article says so in the title.
workerONE@lemmy.world 5 months ago
phillaholic@lemm.ee 5 months ago
No, you’re conflating a teenager taking a food order with illegally installing roofs or working in slaughterhouses or factories.