Part time workers often get fired for their attendance when they do this.
There’s a lot of parents out there that will absolutely use their child in this capacity.
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There’s a lot of parents out there that will absolutely use their child in this capacity.
chop2chip
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My policy would be:
Workers under 18 are subject to the same minimum wage as workers 18 and older unless their employment meets some strictly established criteria such as working less than 10 hours per week and/or during the hours that align with prioritizing their education as we currently have in most states. I’d also be fine with certain exemptions for parents employing their children in their small business.
What my policy would not include is provisions to make youth workers artificially less expensive than their slightly older counterparts. The whole point is that these are kids that aren’t as valuable to an employer and thus the government needs to incentivize their employment by making it cheaper. But if you get rid of the other guardrails such as hours limits or scheduling restrictions for these employees, it’s just a financial gift to employers. Do some of those employers need them? Yes. But I’d favor any legislation to have some sort of upper bound for number of employees or annual revenues to ensure companies like Dollar General or fast food corporations can’t use this to decrease operational payroll expenses by taking advantage of hard-working minors. Any time you adjust the minimum down for a group, large companies will always adjust their practices to better exploit that labor.
This isn’t so much a pro-minimum wage argument or even an argument against youths in the workforce. It’s the targeted reduction of wages paired with policies designed to increase the amount of hours spent on these reduced wages.
acesfull86
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He sucks like most, but I’m willing to tolerate quite a bit at the moment
