Posted on 04/18/2002 7:24:13 AM PDT by tom paine 2
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Twelve-year-old Brian Glennon planned to spend his summer calling balls and strikes for 8-year-old batters, earning $10 a game from the Darien Youth Club baseball league. But thanks to an anonymous complaint, Brian and 35 other young umpires have been fired before the first pitch.
Citing child-labor laws, the Illinois Department of Labor told the league in March to stop paying umpires who are not yet 14.
"It kind of stinks," said Brian, who completed umpiring classes during the winter to qualify for the job, "because there's absolutely no point to it if you're not going to get paid."
I thought we abolished slavery years ago!
I sure hope the parents follow through and do this - although then the battle will become "reporting income" for the kids. Kids NEED ways to earn money these days....THIS MAKES ME SO ANGRY!
With exceptions for especially harmful jobs, kids should be allowed to work whenever their PARENTS say that it's OK.
I started working at 12, delivering newspapers. At 16 I was working at the newspaper, around "dangerous" machinery. Didn't stunt my growth.
I was also the first in a long line of kids cleaning Linotype machines who didn't lose the tip of a finger.
Then you'll have the IRS busting these kids for unreported income.
Voluntary free enterprise business solves problems where they actually do exist...
Force backed government creates problems where they DO NOT exist...
The sheeple must learn this or they will not survive...
The sheeple must learn this or they will not survive...
I think you meant:
The sheeple must learn this or those that resist the Government will not survive...
The ignorance of the sheeple could end up destroying the people who contribute to FreeRepublic. We will be the ones who become enemies of the State.
Sadly, even those sheep who do not resist government will not survive...
As force backed government continues its never ending increase of usurping values created by the value producing individual, eventually there will be no more values for the government to take...
All will then perish under the weight of the giant...
Not just the sheep who resist, but the government loving sheep too...
The ignorance of the sheeple could end up destroying the people who contribute to FreeRepublic. We will be the ones who become enemies of the State.
Very true...
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