I agree. Kids should not be working in packing plants. But they are certainly able to work at a fast food restaurant, or pick strawberries, or do lots of other non-dangerous work, & they’d be the better for it. Do we always have to “throw the baby out with the bath water”?
“But they are certainly able to work at a fast food restaurant, or pick strawberries”
Picking strawberries and raspberries was my first job when I was 14.
No, but when you write a new law you have to put yourself in the shows of a sociopath who will use the law to the wrong end.