Posted on 01/18/2012 10:03:15 PM PST by Steelfish
Gingrich Daughter's Teen Work May Have Violated Law
By Eve Tahmincioglu During the Republican presidential debate this week, Newt Gingrich shared a story about how his daughter worked as a church janitor when she was only 13.
“I was actually proud of my clean bathrooms,” Jackie Gingrich Cushman said in an telephone interview Tuesday, referring to the janitorial job she held at the First Baptist Church in Carrollton, Ga., in the early 1980s. “I learned work has value.”
But that work may have been a violation of federal child labor laws that her father has denounced as “stupid.”
Cushman was 13 when she took the part-time, minimum-wage janitorial job, scrubbing bathrooms two days a week using cleaning supplies and a bucket. She said working as a janitor was a "great experience." Asked if she was working legally as a janitor for the church, Cushman said, "I certainly hope so."
But based on child labor laws in effect now and in the 1980s, 13-year-olds are not allowed to hold janitorial jobs, said Michael Hancock, assistant administrator for policy in the wage and hour division of the U.S. Department of Labor.
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“We’re all lumberjacks and we’re OK
And we’ll kick your arse if you say we’re gay!”
,,,just like my dear Ma Maaaaaaaa!!! ;)
I just watched that a couple days ago on You Tube actually.
We actually did wear nylons though as they helped cut the wind (which gets DAMN cold up there)...and were secure in our manliness doing it ;)
Watch out for mama when she picks up the chainsaw! :-)
I hear that football players in winter also wear the hosiery, though it doesn’t get talked about a lot.
Started first paying job ($1/hr just like the adults) at 10 yrs old on a Saturday, and got first promotion same day!
Seems the farmer was short of help, so I took a job loading sacks of sweet potatoes, but I couldn’t keep up with his teenaged sons who were promised the PU truck to go to town when the job was done. They taught me to drive the tractor while they loaded the sacks of taters to Get-R-Done faster! Worked out well for all concerned with no gubmint bureaucrats around to gum up the works.
Second step was to put wages into a savings account for the future, and I’ve been saving ever since (except for two marriages where the wives spent every cent I made, plus some). I’m comfortably retired now but they’re still broke and living hand to mouth!
I learned the wisdom of my old father (65 when I was born) that if you can’t pay cash, then you can’t afford it, although I did allow one exception and that was a home mortgage - Dave Ramsay agrees.
Cash is still king in uncertain times!
JC
Mad mamas and chainsaws are not a good combo ;)
Today there are all sorts of options for replacing hosery (hoser!) but back then, not so much. Before Carharts it was the old traditional wool pants/suspenders and things like that or just jeans and long johns - neither of which block wind to speak of. But a simple pair of nylons added will. Layered up with the previous, you are a hell of a lot warmer.
And of course the silky feel of ....ER...ahem...AHHH...i’M A LUMBERJACK AND I’M ok!!!! ;)
In the early 70s I was 13yo and had a job as a locker room attendant at a public pool in Rockville, MD. First job and I made a whopping $1.39hr.
And you can be damn sure it included ‘janitorial work’.
Exactly.
It’s getting that way already, or at least that’s the way I read this sudden news about the interview with the ex...
What absolutely BBQs my backside is that ‘they’ have told us that was their intention all along - In media, through social engineering, the ‘educational system, politics etc... and the gen pub, as is the case with the going view on Islam, refuse to accept and make excuses for the truth before their eyes.
I worked with an Editor once who was the stereotype for liberalism in the media. It did not matter how much evidence you could present him or from what source, to counter his total faith in the divinity of the Associated Press, he simply dismissed it out of hand. So too do the gen pub refuse to accept that Marx/communism is part and parcel of liberalism/the desire to destroy any traditional American belief/value/etc.
America either needs to rid itself of liberalism or split into two countries. “They” are simply not capable of being trusted to live amongst us. I can dream I suppose...
You hit on the insidious side of social welfare programs. Earning your own way makes one happier. There's something special about being able to say you built something or earned something yourself. Independence is uplifting. Dependency is dehumanizing. We are designed for work.
Was the Administrator too busy and Obama had to settle for an assistant?
I worked at a young age and was happy and proud to do it. That was how young people got job training and self reliance. It's a shame that it is so frownd upon today!
There is something seriously sick about American culture when making another law seems to be the popular answer to virtually every issue. One doesn't have to be a libertarian to believe we would be better off with quite a few fewer rules. America wasn't always this legalistic, anal dystopia, but we somehow not only survived but thrived.
I startred work at 14 at McDonalds then worked construction at 15. I was paid 99 cents per hour. 1964. How could that have been illegal?
At 14 I moved irrigation lines across 100 acres fields 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, all summer for 1.25 an hour. Build muscles and character.
At 14 I moved irrigation lines across 100 acres fields 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, all summer for 1.25 an hour. Build muscles and character.
Oh my gosh, I mowed neighbor’s lawns for money when I was 14....The horror!
Oh, for freakin Pete’s sake.
So did I and when I was in my teens I had a commercial shell fish license to harvest and sell in Long Island Great south Bay. My kids grew up working for Winn Dixie stores while still going to school. Funny how the Media can find all this BS but cant find anything on Obozo. School records etc.
My three sisters and I were all summer runners for my small town attorney father. He thought eating and living indoors was compensation enough.
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