#This Is Terrifying!

[brilokuloj]

Lawmakers target child labor laws to ease worker shortage

Legislators in multiple states are invoking a widespread labor shortage to push bills that would weaken long-standing child labor laws. Iowa lawmakers are considering Republican legislation that would allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work in industrial laundry services and freezers at meatpacking plants. It'd also prevent many of them from receiving worker's compensation if they are sickened, injured or killed on the job. The federal government promised to crack down on illegal child labor last month after observing a 69% increase in companies employing underage workers since 2018.

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

“I still have to pay back my debt, so I still have to work,” said Mauricio Ramirez, 17, who has found a meat processing job in the next town over. Charlene Irizarry, the human resources manager at Farm Fresh Foods, an Alabama meat plant that struggles to retain staff, recently realized she was interviewing a 12-year-old for a job slicing chicken breasts into nuggets in a section of the factory kept at 40 degrees. Federal law bars minors from a long list of dangerous jobs, including roofing, meat processing and commercial baking. Except on farms, children younger than 16 are not supposed to work for more than three hours or after 7 p.m. on school days.

Company fined $1.5 million for hiring children to clean meatpacking plants

At least three minors suffered injuries while cleaning slaughterhouses, including a chemical burn to the face, the Washington Post reports. The minors worked overnight shifts and used caustic chemicals to "clean razor-sharp saws" and other high-risk equipment, the Labor Department said. The states with facilities listed in the department's announcement were mostly across the South and Midwest, including Arkansas, Minnesota and Nebraska.

I guess making child labor legal is one way to "crack down on illegal child labor"

[sassyandclassy94]

My mom wants to read one of my fanfics... I’m hoping she forgets because, is it wrong that I don’t want her to read them...?🙈

[zheltofiol]

So....I am browsing through wish.com and....THIS comes into my suggested feed like....what the ever loving hell did I go and look at to have this kind of thing suggested to me?!

[scorndotexe]

it’s posted!

[out-of-context-animal-jam]

[akinozetsubou]

Senhor nunca tive tanto medo de uma eleição, sério. #ELENÃO #ELENUNCA

[the-writing-on-the-statue]

i feel like a goddamn necromorph is going to be waiting around the corner.

[spoiledchestnut]

WOW Footloose is a really horrible movie! >___>;;; goddamn!

[pikachupacabras-blog]

5:58:04 PM Q: how is the boyfriend

6:04:01 PM brohime: he's good

6:04:09 PM brohimes: workin a lot.

6:04:33 PM brohimes: how's the wife?

[capillaryspice]

I have seen hell

and it is this Thor ugly doll

[yankeecountess]

There is some animal that is howling/moaning RIGHT OUTSIDE MY WINDOW and it is FREAKING ME OUT!

someone come over and hold me! AHHH!!!!

[shhh-immartinfreeman]

Don't Blink. Mummy. Are you my mummy? Don't blink mummy. MUMMY!

[grumpyrussianspys]

SWEET JESUS WHY?!