re: Louisiana lawmakers vote to end lunch breaks for teen workers

Article is behind a paywall, so how about a summary or excerpt for those of us who don’t pay for that shitrag of a website?

But LA has some stupidity in child labor laws these days. When school is in session, a 15 year old can only work 3 hour max shifts and have to be off work by 7pm. Really limits the places that a kid can get hired at with those restrictions. Especially when clocking out at 7:02 or having worked 3 hours and 1 minute that day becomes a fineable offense for the business. I’m not saying they should have high school kids working long hours or until 11pm, but current laws limit kids who actually want to work and save for a car or something. And deters businesses from hiring them.

I got my first job at 15 to save for a car by bussing tables. I wouldn’t have been able to have that job at 15 with today’s hour restrictions because dinner shift started at 5 and we didn’t close until 9 on weekdays and 10 on Friday and Saturday.