CNN: Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

[Yavin4]

Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wage and often undesirable jobs.

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state legislature have a potential solution: children.

The state’s legislature on Tuesday advanced a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days. They are currently prevented from working earlier than 6:30 am or later than 11 pm per state law.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws/index.html

The continuing backsliding of America into a backwater. When a nation forces labor on your future instead of educating them, then it's no longer a great nation.

[Walleye]

1. My father taught junior high school science at a downstate school in Delaware

It is a heavy poultry producing area. He said his kids would be falling asleep in class, and when he asked them why they would say they were up all night “catching chickens”. So this is where we’re at of course they don’t believe in education anyway.

[chouchou]

2. WTF! That's the DeSatan alright. Typical dumb-ass right-wing nut.

He still wears those cowboy boots with 6 in lifts. (Really..6 inches inside the damn things)

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Yeah, let's put 8 yr olds in the fields on their off school days....shit, who needs school at all....let's just start

them working in the fields 7 days a week beginning at 6 yrs old. Yeah, that works.

[Yavin4]

8. That's exactly where this is headed.

And after that, it will be forced labor in the fields.

[Norrrm]

4. Hire the republicans who lost jobs to the undoc immigrants.

[travelingthrulife]

5. No surprise here.

[LoisB]

6. "It's 10 pm, do you know where your children are?" Yes, they are down at the slaughter house

decapitating cows.

[RoeVWade]

7. DeSantis - strong contender for possibly the worst social conservative prize.

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