Child labor laws were — at least theoretically — made to keep kids out of coal mine and away from dangerous machines in textile mills.
In my opinion, they serve basically no purpose today. Let the kids work at anything they are capable of doing, if they are willing to do it.
The laws are legitimate and designed to not only keep kids out of dangerous manufacturing facilities such as auto stamping plants where I worked in but hopefully to keep them in school........
You want to give them job experience, open up more trade classes in high school and trade schools following graduation.
There is absolutely no benefit whatsoever in offering incentives to a kid to drop out of high school and go to work in either your mills, coal mines or manufacturing plants........