• Indiana lawmaker who employs minors pushes to scrap state child labor laws
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https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/28/lawmaker-who-owns-perfect-north-slopes-pushes-end-state-child-labor-laws/2657091002/ A lawmaker who employees hundreds of minors at an Indiana ski resort is pushing to scrap all state child labor laws, which is raising questions about whether his role in such an effort is a conflict of interest. Senate Bill 342 — filed by Republican state Sen. Chip Perfect, the CEO of Perfect North Slopes — would get rid of work permit requirements for minors and remove all restrictions on what hours 16- and 17-year-old Hoosiers can work. While federal child labor laws offer greater protections for those under 16, they barely touch on work requirements for older teens, aside from wages. Perfect, of Lawrenceburg, said the resort employs anywhere from 300 to 400 minors, and his human resources director testified in favor of the bill during a committee hearing last week, raising questions about whether his involvement in the legislation is a conflict of interest. For example, Indiana doesn't allow 16-year-old students to work past 10 p.m. or more than 30 hours per school week or 40 hours per non-school week, unless they have parental permission. Employers are also required to give minors 30-minute breaks for every six hours they work. Employers such as Perfect North, which is open until midnight on weekends, would no longer face such limits if Perfect's bill becomes law.
Maybe it's changed but when I lived in Scotland 16-18 year olds didn't receive any legal protections and were treated like any other worker. I know the rest of the UK had different laws about this though. Does the US have different wage rates for ages like the UK? If so I can see why this guy employs so many young people.
I think when the conflict of interest is this blatant you should just be arrested tbh like fuck off
Honestly when you have a clear conflict of interest like this you should be legally obligated to either not vote or vote against it. Voting for something that personally benefits you in a situation like this shouldn't be allowed.
The Federal Government has already had two attorney generals recuse themselves from meddling in investigations into their boss, the same kind of thing should come standard with any conflict of interest, yet it somehow doesn't.
I think a solution like that could have some unintended consequences. You could more easily easily kill or promote bills by including riders that stop certain legislators from voting. I would instead opt for requiring that lawmakers divest before taking office.
Instead of scrapping the child labor laws, instead scrap him. Maybe by using a trash compactor in a scrap yard.
I don't disagree with your latter point but you could always just scrap the entire rider bill system. It was created for understandable reasons but historically it's been primarily abused to just pass unpopular shit to begin with.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/30/lawmaker-who-employs-minors-shelves-plan-scrap-child-labor/2720438002/
This would make all politicians gun even harder to be career politicians, which is important to consider.
I don't think there's anything wrong with career politicians. Navigating politics is a skill that is learned. As long as districts are competitive and monied interests are kept at bay, I see no problem.
oh hey forgot that's also a plank of the right wing free marketers https://youtu.be/EUDJNwHngVI here's an example of their whitewashing, note the authoritative dress and professional production on what is still essentially an argument for child labor
I posted this in the thread about the Malaysian PM but I think this clip could pull double duty here, specifically the bit during the brainwashing about how kids as young as 5 could work in smelteries and such.
Hey this is like 5 minutes away from where I used to live! I knew a lot of people that worked at this ski slope when I was a teenager, it seemed like every other person worked there at some point. Most of the people that worked there were underage, it's pretty strange. I know of a few other places nearby that would hire teens and pay them below minimum wage under the table, but they were smaller businesses so they could get away with it. Fun fact, that county also has one of the highest incarceration rates per capita in the country https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/upshot/new-geography-of-prisons.html What a wonderful place. Personally they only detained me twice, and questioned me 3 times. They even threw the folder with papers onto the table like they do in the movies. Thanks goodness I moved away from that shithole
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