The bill have allowed 16 year olds to work 8 hours over night with no lunch/meal break while also attending school during the day. It's slave labor.

The bill would have permitted 16- and 17-year-olds to work overnight on school days and work longer than an eight-hour day before a school day. Some 14- and 15-year-olds would also have been allowed to work those hours.

While sane and modern countries use this time to educate children and ensure they don't need to work graveyard shifts during high school even go so far as funding their higher education so they can become highly-functional and productive tax-paying members of society, America begins its foray into bringing back child labor to backfill some of the most grueling and thankless jobs in the country.

Great fucking job you fucks

Dude, seriously FUCK Newsweek. Reddit posts this garbage news clickbait crap all the time. Posting Newsweek trash is just a complete waste of time. Use better, local, independent news organizations instead of a rag that just uses clickbait and sensationalism. Fuck off Newsweek.

I worked for a greenhouse in the Niagara region. We had maybe 2-3 migrant workers at a time and they worked HARD. My boss once said that he would prefer to hire the students from the local horticulture program but he still usually needs a few migrant workers to make sure we get through the season. He then informed me to look closer at the people working the fields around the area. The amount of work being done by migrant workers would simply not get done if they were kicked out. They make up a majority of the labour required so the grocery stores can put 5000 tomatoes on display at a time.

I do believe Mr. DeSantis should put his money where his mouth is, and have all of HIS children work these shifts, thus showing effective leadership with a prime example of how parents should treat their children.

I mean, if it's a good policy, he wouldn't mind making his children work, right?

Republicans fucking suck

I did corn detasseling for 2-half days (we got rained out on day 1) back when I was 12. I imagine those migrants were much more capable and tolerant of the bs than I was. -I remember the humidity in the fields, the mud, and the desire to vomit.

There are far less teenagers then migrants. Maybe those businesses should move away from exploitation altogether.

Teens are a really bad workforce to rely on. It's always been understood that kids work for their own benefit, and the business just happens to benefit from that. They need a savings so they can move out on their own when they graduate. This isn't for their benefit, this is so companies can fuel their needs for wage slaves.

newsweek is a conspiracy peddling right-wing rag, please stop driving traffic to them

We did this already, why must we repeat the worst parts of history?

When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers

Just imagine... Kamala was somehow worse.

/s for those easily triggered assholes

Oh word? Maybe try replacing republicans with humans.

Not the onion.

"No sixteen year olds want to work these days"

Good. But I don't agree with anyone I know that Florida "isn't that bad."

I don't have a map of statistics where bad shit happens, but if I did, Florida would stand out.

It's a fucking swamp. Humans aren't meant for that environment. (Actually, I don't know if humans ever naturally adjusted to swamps, it just seems like tons of horrible ways to die)