Senate Bill 918 would allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts.
Currently, teens are prevented from working earlier than 6:30 a.m. or later than 11 p.m.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is in favor of the bill.
“Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people,” DeSantis said at an immigration panel, according to the network. “And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.”
The bill, according to CNN, would also eliminate working time restrictions on 14- and 15-year-olds if they are home-schooled and end guaranteed meal breaks for teens aged 16 and 17.
It went in front of the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee on Tuesday, where it advanced with a 5 to 4 recommendation.
FIXED IT!
Republicans get incredibly screamy at you if you suggest that kids should have childhoods and go to school and not be exploited for labor. Corporations want child labor so they can drill the “work ethic” propaganda into them at a young age and not to mention, if they can get kids to work for them, they can get away with egregiously underpaying them.