US states pass child labor laws letting teens bartend

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A growing number of US states are working to loosen child labor laws so your next bartender could be an underage teenager

would allow teens to work until 9:00 p.m. during the school year and until 11:00 p.m. over the summer and serve alcohol.

The restaurant industry is backing legislators in their efforts to loosen child labor laws, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. The National Restaurant Association — representing over 100 restaurant corporations — have reportedly lobbied support for the growing pattern. However, there are risks to putting minors around alcohol, analysts say.

"Laws that lower the alcohol service age will subject more young people, at younger ages, to potentially dangerous working conditions at low wages — all in service of employers' pursuit of cheap labor," Nina Mast, an analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, said in the report. As businesses struggle to hire and keep employees, fast food franchises and factories have faced backlash for unlawful labor practices involving children. In February,were accused of breaking child labor laws after seven restaurants were found to have 154 minors employed at inappropriate times, per the US Department of Labor.

Earlier this year, sanitation company Packers Sanitation Services Inc. was fined $1.5 million in penalties for employing at least 102 children

 

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