Lawmakers in Iowa passed a bill this week that, among other things, would allow children to work an additional two hours on school days and grant some underage teenagers permission to serve alcohol in restaurants.
Teenagers still need a parent's permission to work any of the expanded hours mentioned in the bill, said Republican Adrian Dickey, who sponsored the measure."The goal of this legislation was to create more opportunities for youth and more flexibility for them to pursue potential careers," Dickey told CBS MoneyWatch in a statement Thursday."Never was it crafted with the intention of solving any sort of a workforce issue.
School-aged children are often out late for sports or extracurricular activity so other teens"should be encouraged, not looked at negatively" if they want to work late, Dickey said. Changes to youth labor laws are popping up across the South and Midwestern states — all with their own different wrinkles. A bill introduced in February in Minnesota for example would allow teenagers to work on construction sites. Bills in Missouri and Ohio would extend the time teenagers can work to 10 p.m. and 9 p.m., respectively.
In Arkansas, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the state's revised youth labor law because she"believes protecting kids is most important, but doing so with arbitrary burdens on parents to get permission from the government for their child to get a job is burdensome and obsolete," a Sanders spokeswoman told CBS MoneyWatch.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Iowa lawmakers pass legislation to roll back child labor protections | CNN PoliticsIf signed by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds -- who has expressed support for the measure -- the bill would allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work two additional hours per day when school is in session, from four to six hours.
Read more »
Iowa Democrats propose workaround after demotion from first-in-the-nation caucusesIowa Democrats are proposing a novel way to get around their demotion from the leadoff spot on the party’s presidential nominating calendar: They would still put on the first-in-the-nation caucuses but would be open to withholding the results until after other states have their contests.
Read more »
Iowa Democrats' plan: Hold 1st caucuses, report votes laterIowa Democrats are proposing a novel way to get around their demotion from the leadoff spot on the party’s presidential nominating calendar: They would still put on the first-in-the-nation caucuses but would be open to withholding the results until after other states have their contests.
Read more »
Iowa State football player from Chicago accused of raping injured womanAn Iowa State football player has been arrested on charges alleging that he raped a woman while she lay immobile after he shoved her so hard into stairs in his home that it fractured her spine.
Read more »
Proposed carbon dioxide pipeline that would end in Illinois hits legal road bump in IowaNavigator’s planned pipeline would cut through five states — Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota — and carry carbon dioxide from ethanol and fertilizer processors to a site in Illinois.
Read more »
Baby dead, woman seriously injured in Iowa dog attackA 9-month-old baby was killed and a 49-year-old woman was seriously injured during a dog attack in Waterloo, Iowa, police say.
Read more »