First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks. He questioned why Louisiana has the requirement while other states where he owns Smoothie King locations, such as Mississippi, don't have them, and criticized people who have questioned the bill's purpose.
“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”

O_O

Edit: you heard it here first, one day there will be a news article about this guy flirting with underage workers (possibly something darker)

The cruelty is the point. At this point, voting republican in the US is equal to voting for German Nazis in 1933, when they were still working towards a totalitarian terror state.

What a shithole state. Why is every southern state trying to outdo each other on their assholery.

When I was a kid I worked at a full service gas station. We didn’t get lunch breaks, or any sort of breaks, and I didn’t know that’s how things were supposed to work until I became an adult and started to work construction.

This law absolutely will be used to take advantage of kids, because companies do not give one single fuck about children and kids don’t know any better.

Yikes, add a non compete to this and it's basically slavery conditions

Once again, I feel the need to point out that the child labor issue is an immigration issue and that is what informs their cruelty.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-labor-crisis

Well, I’m not planning to ever visit Louisiana, and if I do, I won’t be visiting Smoothie King. Maybe all of the “young adults” in Louisiana will apply for jobs out of state.

Sometimes american news read like the funny news from a dystopic victorian city builder tycoon

They want their slaves back. Don't dare dream otherwise. They want slaves.

They're also introducing new regulations that require regular maintenance to keep the thumbscrew-tightening machines in proper working order. In the next session, they'll be deciding whether to allow employers to hit babies in the face with bats.