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> When I was a 16 year old kid working as a “Courtesy Clerk” for Albertsons Grocery store, we got a 15-minute break for every 4-hour shift and an hour lunch for

• acdha 5y ago
  Yes. One of the big problems we have now is that companies are either reframing their work Uber-style to get around regulations or flat-out ignoring them. Going after violations like that or e.g. the endemic wage-theft at small businesses like restaurants would be a great use of civic money since most of the people affected by lax enforcement have limited power to push back.
  • lotsofpulp 5y ago
    The first step is to have those laws. The article is about Texas, a government that takes pride in not having laws that provide a minimum quality of life at work.
• ruined 5y ago
  federal law says nothing about breaks except that if they're 30m or longer you don't get paid many states go no further, including Texas, which explicitly does not require break time
• wayoutthere 5y ago
  Sure, but teenagers don’t know any better so they get away with it.