GET ME REWRITE: Wisconsin GOP leadership has no interest in protecting young workers

 

Photos:  Wisconsin Senate, Wisconsin  Assembly

Top headline:  Economic Policy Institute, 11/7/2023

Bottom headline: Wisconsin Public Radio, 8/24/2023

Three GOP state lawmakers are circulating a proposal that would eliminate work permits for Wisconsin’s 14- and 15-year-old job seekers. The proposal comes during a national push to loosen regulations governing what jobs minors can perform in the workplace. It faces opposition from statewide labor groups like the Wisconsin AFL-CIO. 

Wisconsin requires anyone under 16 to obtain a work permit for jobs outside of agriculture and domestic service work. Children must be at least 14 to work. The process for obtaining a permit requires teens to receive a job offer, and their parents to apply for a work permit with the state Department of Workforce Development. The permit costs $10.

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