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

grue@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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).

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soba@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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 works a little harder and a little cheaper. Breaks cost money.

Next time read the article.

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- idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The bit about worker’s compensation is in the article.
  
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Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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.

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