Labor Laws

[NeoStarO1]

Um, isn't there some sort of general law that applies to majority of US States in regards to age limits for employees?

Reason I ask is cause I just got back from Walgreens to pick up some milk and other odds and ends needed and a boy of about 11 or 12 years old was ringing up the sale with the help of an older woman (maybe his mother). But isn't it illegal to have children that young ringing up cash sales reguardless if an adult is present or not?

Just Curious.

[Mntsnow]

Good question....I would suggest your states' goverement site to start your search off with

[jad1097]

I would also check local laws.


thought it was a federal law that they had to be 15 to be employed full time but I am not sure about part time employment. I started working summers when I was 12 for my father. It shows on the SS paper work they send me every year that I started paying in 81' when I was 12.


*edit*
Go find out the kids age and bust them.


An Overview of Federal Child Labor Laws (http://www.nclnet.org/child%20labor/fact1.htm)

Non-Agricultural
Minimum Age for Employment:

The minimum age for employment is 14 years old. There are some exceptions such as newspaper delivery; performing in radio, television, movie, or theatrical productions; and work for parents in their solely-owned nonfarm business (except in manufacturing or in hazardous jobs).

Agricultural
Minimum Age for Employment:

Youth 10- and 11-years-old may perform jobs on farms owned or operated by parent(s), or with a parent's written consent, outside of school hours in nonhazardous jobs on farms not covered by minimum wage requirements.

Youth 12- and 13-years-old may work outside of school hours in non-hazardous jobs, either with a parent's written consent or on the same farm as the parent(s).

Youth 14- and 15-years-old may perform any non-hazardous farm job outside of school hours.

Youth 16 and older may perform any job, whether hazardous or not, for unlimited hours.


OH and I just noticed this.

Most states have child labor laws. A few states solely rely on the federal laws found in the FLSA. State child labor laws may be more restrictive or less restrictive than the federal child labor laws (FLSA). In other words, states may have different minimum ages for employment, different hours of work restrictions, and additional occupations identified as hazardous.
If the employment falls under FLSA jurisdiction, then both federal and state laws apply -- and the most restrictive law (whether it is the state or the federal) is followed.

[jad1097]

http://www.boli.state.or.us/technical/stw.html#labor

It looks like 14 in OR.

[surrealchereal]

Originally posted by jad1097



*edit*
Go find out the kids age and bust them.


Are you being serious or kidding?

[jad1097]

I am VERY SERIOUS! Wallmart is an anti-American corporation. And IMO we need to run them out of our country for good.

*edit*opps she said Walgreens! I feel stupid now :o




Wal-Mart is an unrepentant and recidivist violator of employee rights, drawing repeated convictions, fines, and the ire of judges from coast to coast. For example, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has had to file more suits against the Bentonville billionaires club for cases of disability discrimination than any other corporation. A top EEOC lawyer told Business Week, "I have never seen this kind of blatant disregard for the law."

Likewise, a national class-action suit reveals an astonishing pattern of sexual discrimination at Wal-Mart (where 72% of the salespeople are women), charging that there is "a harsh, anti-woman culture in which complaints go unanswered and the women who make them are targeted for retaliation."

Workers' compensation laws, child-labor laws (1,400 violations in Maine alone), surveillance of employees-you name it, this corporation is a repeat offender. No wonder, then, that turnover in the stores is above 50% a year, with many stores having to replace 100% of their employees each year, and some reaching as high as a 300% turnover!

Worldwide wage-depressor

Then there's China. For years, Wal-Mart saturated the airwaves with a "We Buy American" advertising campaign, but it was nothing more than a red-white-and-blue sham. All along, the vast majority of the products it sold were from cheap-labor hell-holes, especially China. In 1998, after several exposes of this sham, the company finally dropped its "patriotism" posture and by 2001 had even moved its worldwide purchasing headquarters to China. Today, it is the largest importer of Chinese-made products in the world, buying $10 billion worth of merchandise from several thousand Chinese factories.





And much more (http://www.rense.com/general24/rema.htm) most don't know about wally world.

[NeoStarO1]

Originally posted by surreal

Are you being serious or kidding?

Im dead serious, I wouldn't post some frivolous crap.

[surrealchereal]

Uh yeah, but she was talking about Walgreens..

Walgreens was among the very first American companies to establish profit sharing and pension plans, to assure security for its employees. The initial funds for the pension - $500,000 in cash - was contributed by the personal estate of Charles R. Walgreen Sr. in a plan called "a landmark in American industrial relations," by The Chicago Daily News.

Sounds like they're the kind of company you would want to support.

[surrealchereal]

Neo, I was talking to jad1097

[NeoStarO1]

Ya i normally see the same employees at a walgreens store for very long time, I have seen this woman many times over but never the boy.

Walmart, ugh, seems everytime i go in there there are new employees, I am not suprised at the turnover rate.

[NeoStarO1]

:o LOL< oops, my bad!

[jad1097]

surreal yes I realized that after I made the post - notice the edit?

[surrealchereal]

Originally posted by NeoStarO1
:o LOL< oops, my bad! :lol: :lol:

I wonder if he was as young as you thought??..If so maybe it was a take your child to work kind of day.. Actually there is one day a year the goverment designated as take your kid to work day.. Can't remember what day it is tho..

[surrealchereal]

Actuall jad1097 it wasn't there when I started to reply, after I opened the window I did some checking.. I actually looked up walgreens to make sure of my assumption that it wasn't part of wally world.. Just now I circled back to ask you if they had been bought by ole sam boy.. because after thinking about the kind of expanding they have done the last couple years .. very aggressive stuff.

[jad1097]

The sad thing is that I am a hypocrite because I do shop at Sams Club often but I do try to stay out of wally world.


I also checked to see if they bought them out and it looks like they did not.

[surrealchereal]

Well, the sad fact is, that most corporations don't treat employees well..
But if you do care about those things.. Let me mention Home Depot. They are very good to their employees. I'm working for them now. I"m in an ecconomy that sux here no jobs.
Home Depot could pay less but they don't they pay about 40% more than any other retailer in town. they have ins for part time employees. and a 401k .. Lowes on the other hand is low wages and no benefits like anyother retailer..

[jad1097]

I agree Home Depot is one of the few big corps that does care for their employees. I have had a few friends work for them and the pay and bennies are rather good. I have also noticed that they tend to hire more knowledgeable people than Lowes.

Yes, I do care about things such as this.

[surrealchereal]

I thought you did ;)
OH and if you ever get to YeeHaw Utah stop in and say hi!
Floor and Wall baby! :p

[NeoStarO1]

Originally posted by surreal
:lol: :lol:

I wonder if he was as young as you thought??..If so maybe it was a take your child to work kind of day.. Actually there is one day a year the goverment designated as take your kid to work day.. Can't remember what day it is tho..

I had thought about that but seems I recall the one day, take your kid to work day was during the school year. That is quite possible. Im inclined to think he was about that young cause he wasn't much taller than my daughter who is 8, then again he could have been a short 14 year old. but he looked about 11 or 12 to me.

[surrealchereal]

I don't know Neo, you know the older you get the younger they look :eek:
Heck anyone under 23 looks 12 to me! :p:lol:

[jad1097]

lol surreal