Change in law allows teenagers to serve alcohol in restaurants and could allow children to operate heavy machinery like power saws
. Democrats and other critics warned that the bill could causes businesses to exploit children and distract minors from school.
“With this legislation Iowa joins 20 other states in providing tailored, common sense labor provisions that allow young adults to develop their skills in the workforce,”Under Iowa’s new law, 14- and 15-year-olds are allowed to work two extra hours per day during the school year, a total of six hours.
Two adults are required to be present when children are serving alcohol. Minor employees also have to complete a “training on prevention and response to sexual harassment”, reported CNN. Children as young as 16 can now also work in areas including manufacturing, with an exemption from the Iowa department of education or Iowa workforce development as long as its part of a work-based learning program.about sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms from kindergarten through sixth grade.
Iowa’s loosening of child labor laws comes amid high-profile cases in several states, as Republicans across the US
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