Now look up how little they're allowed to pay disabled people, "14(c) waiver".
Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act authorizes employers, after receiving a certificate from the Wage and Hour Division, to pay special minimum wages — wages less than the Federal minimum wage — to workers who have disabilities for the work being performed.
Cool how you basically get slaves. Also, if they don't get a job, they usually have disability cut. And if they make minimum wage, it goes away, and of they make less than sub minimum wage it also goes away. So they're the most blatant and obvious example of wage slavery right now.
I worked with a guy with cerebral palsy, we made probably the same amount per hour but I know if he worked too many hours he'd have his benefits taken away.
Yep. It's a system to create an incredibly precarious labor pool.
Yeah, under capitalism it isn't uncommon that kids kind of need to work. I've been working consistently since 15, it let me have some fun as a teenager and save up enough to pay for a few semesters of college. I wouldn't have starved if I didn't work that young, but my parents were white collar and it eased their burden while making my younger life notably better.
It would be great if kids didn't need to work, but when accumulation of money is the game, you need to get it somewhere.
Naive and inexperienced people are more easily exploitable....also Protestants hate children
I loved having a job when I was 16. My own spending money! And I got to be a part of something bigger than myself. Heady stuff.
I also found out what a bite taxes took out. Ouch. Why did people who made as little as I did get stung like that?
Anyone earning less than $70k/year shouldn't pay any income tax at all. It's total bullshit.
I was one of the last of the paper boys. We used to deliver newspapers on bikes. I got hired at 12. Received a check for $40 every month that the liquor store owner next door had no problem cashing. If I was a better commie I would have unionized that fucker. My bad.
Just think how adorable it'll be in the future when all retail workers are 7 year olds
curious. you say to each according to their needs but are not ok with children earning less despite having different needs :very-smart:
Surely if teenagers are employed for lower wages there's no reason to hire adults for the higher wages
Yeah exactly what happens in fast food in my experience, except they need workers monday to friday during school hours as well, plus supervisors
Nah, this is gotta be a fake. What state even allows 14 year olds to work? Besides since when does McD's advertise its wages like this?
Yea it could be fake, but there are states (like mine) where you can get certain jobs at 14.
Nope you can work in fast food or grocery stores at 14 where I live. I have friends who did that years ago.
Ha ha ha, that's adorable. US federal minimum working age is 14, with exceptions made for mostly bourgeois shit (i.e. working at your parents' business, being a child actor, etc.).
An employer may be required to apply for state certificates permitting them to employ minors, but that's just minor annual paperwork. In nearly all states 14 is when you can get almost any job (excluding work that would qualify for hazard pay).
Yep, only thing is that 14-16 you get a 1 hour break and are limited to 20 hour weeks I think. Also, not allowed near hot or sharp or electric things. Basically they're just allowed to answer phones, take orders, or run a register.
Had a few at a pizza joint I worked at for a while and had mad respect for the girl who was asked to "clock out and keep working" by the manager and the pulled out her phone and started recording. Said she'd sue the store of he tried that shit again and went outside to wait for her ride (she was 15 I think).
If memory serves both your guardians and your school have to sign off on it if you're under a certain age
In my collective agreement it stops increasing at 20 so I'm still arbitrarily payed less than many of my colleagues at 19
I think they actually make most of their money by owning the building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJVj3vp-lho
I didn't even start my first job until I was seventeen, and that was volunteer work.
