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W<\/span>ith immigrant workers being deported or driven into hiding, Florida businesses need more workers. Where to look? How about getting those slothful 13-year-olds wasting time out on playgrounds and doing homework into the workplace, and letting older teens work full time?<\/p>\n

A House bill<\/a> sponsored by Florida Rep. Monique Miller passed its first of three committee stops Tuesday by a 12 to 6 vote along party lines, with only one Republican joining all Democrats to vote against. The bill would allow children as young as fourteen who have graduated high school or are home- or virtual-school students and allow older teens to work 30 hour shifts a week as well as overnight shifts, even on school nights. Currently<\/a>, a Florida teen must be 14 years old to be employed, but the legislation would lower that cutoff to 13-year-olds who would become eligible for employment as soon as the summer of the year in which they turn 14.<\/p>\n

Just to make sure they’re hungry for work, the legislation would also eliminate 30-minute meal breaks for any shift of four hours or more.\u00a0 Current Florida law caps night-time work for minors at 11pm on school nights.\u00a0 The Senate version<\/a> was passed by the Commerce and Tourism Committee earlier.<\/p>\n

God, Families and DeSantis<\/h2>\n

Florida Senator Ron DeSantis, who pushed the bill to legislators,\u00a0endorsed<\/a> the legislation asking<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that\u2019s how it used to be when I was growing up,\u201d DeSantis said during the panel. \u201cWhy do we say we need to import foreigners, even import them illegally, when you know, teenagers used to work at these resorts, college students should be able to do this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

To this argument, I can only continue to quote Wisconsin Assemblywoman Deb Andraca, who responded to a similar effort, stating \u2018The solution to Wisconsin’s worker shortages is not shorter workers.”<\/p>\n

\u2018The solution to Wisconsin’s worker shortages is not shorter workers.”\u00a0 — Wisconsin Assemblywoman Deb Andraca<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How do we protect these children from injuries and abuse?\u00a0 Well, luckily God has thought about that problem, according to bill sponsor Monique Miller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think every family needs to make that decision for what\u2019s best for them, instead of having the government tell them what’s best,\u201d said Miller, a self-described \u201cparental rights\u201d activist.\u00a0 She further responded to voiced concerns from Democratic colleagues about children being exploited on the job. \u201cGod gave us a great barrier for that, and that is parents,\u201d she attempted to reassure, conveniently ignoring parents who\u00a0abuse<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0otherwise exploit their own children<\/a>. \u201cParents can definitely oversee what children are allowed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The legislation in Florida and other states was inspired by , specifically, at the behest<\/a> of a right-wing think tank Foundation for Government Accountability<\/a> which is funded in large part by billionaire Richard \u201cDick\u201d Uihlein.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod gave us a great barrier for that, and that is parents,\u201d — Florida Rep Monique Miller on how child laborers will be protected.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

West Virginia Follows<\/h2>\n

Meanwhile, further north, the West Virginia House has passed a bill<\/a> that would remove permit requirements for 14 and 15 year-old workers as long as they get a permit from their school superintendent that includes “age certification, a commitment by the employer to employ the child legally, a description of the work the child is applying to do, a signature by the child\u2019s principal saying that they\u2019re attending school and parental consent.”<\/p>\n

Under the new bill, 14- and 15-year-olds seeking employment would no longer be required to have a work permit as long as the real<\/em> experts on workplace safety — their parents —\u00a0 sign off.<\/p>\n

International Race to the Bottom<\/h2>\n

And, of course, all of this is consistent with the Trump administration’s policy of reducing America’s labor force to third-world conditions.\u00a0 Previous Democratic and Republican administrations have provided grants to non-profits in other countries to fight child labor. Aside from the obvious humanitarian benefits of these efforts, reducing child labor abroad also addresses unfair trade practices by reducing low-paid, exploited labor that allows lower-priced foreign goods.<\/p>\n

Trump has turned that theory upside down:\u00a0 Instead of fighting child labor abroad, we simply just allow it here.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Trump has turned that theory upside down:\u00a0 Instead of fighting child labor abroad, we simply put “America First” by allowing it here. While states make it easier for children to work in the US, DOGE has eliminated of grants<\/a> by the Labor Department’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) “to non-profit organizations and non-governmental organizations working in other countries to promote better working conditions for the most vulnerable people<\/a> and to ensure companies complied with international labor standards.”\"child<\/p>\n

Makes sense.<\/p>\n

The discontinued projects reached across continents and industries, according to the Labor Department website. One grant went toward helping end a practice in Uzbekistan that put farmers and children to work picking cotton against their will. Another grantee trained agriculture workers in Mexico on labor rights, aiming to end child labor in the tobacco industry. A project in West Africa helped curb the practice of 10-year-old children being sent to harvest cacao beans with machetes, according to Reid Maki, coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition, a group of organizations fighting child labor domestically and internationally.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, this week’s Weekly Toll reports the deaths of a 16 year old<\/a> and a 19 year old<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maybe God wasn’t paying attention?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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