Reply To: Arkansas Gov. Sanders signs law loosening child labor protections

“So basically a useless law to have a useless form was knocked out.”

So basically there was a great law on the books for a century to protect children and the current Governor, for no good reason except inconvenience, reversed it and is not worried about the adverse repercussions to the youth it was meant to protect.
Mazel Tov.

I understand what worries the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families and all the opponents to the bill and I agree with them. As a result of her new law, employers can take advantage of 14 and 15 years old and get away with it.

“So basically he’s saying that it will make a prosecutors job slightly easier if you have this form. ”

Laws are made with the goal that they be enforced and not have violator’s feign ignorance. Nobody trusts people to keep the law when there is a monetary advantage to break it.

Read the following republican hypocrisy from the Arkansas Advocate.

Eliminating this requirement would “restore decision-making to parents concerning their children,” the bill states. Rep. Rebecca Burkes (R-Lowell), the bill’s primary sponsor, repeated this on the House floor Feb. 22.

Rep. Andrew Collins (D-Little Rock) took issue with this clause.

“Parents have to sign off [on the permit] under the current law,” he said. “If this passes, the parents won’t have to sign off, and I think that’s a pretty important distinction.”