Posted on 01/18/2012 10:03:15 PM PST by Steelfish
Gingrich Daughter's Teen Work May Have Violated Law
By Eve Tahmincioglu During the Republican presidential debate this week, Newt Gingrich shared a story about how his daughter worked as a church janitor when she was only 13.
“I was actually proud of my clean bathrooms,” Jackie Gingrich Cushman said in an telephone interview Tuesday, referring to the janitorial job she held at the First Baptist Church in Carrollton, Ga., in the early 1980s. “I learned work has value.”
But that work may have been a violation of federal child labor laws that her father has denounced as “stupid.”
Cushman was 13 when she took the part-time, minimum-wage janitorial job, scrubbing bathrooms two days a week using cleaning supplies and a bucket. She said working as a janitor was a "great experience." Asked if she was working legally as a janitor for the church, Cushman said, "I certainly hope so."
But based on child labor laws in effect now and in the 1980s, 13-year-olds are not allowed to hold janitorial jobs, said Michael Hancock, assistant administrator for policy in the wage and hour division of the U.S. Department of Labor.
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The left is very very scared..their butt buddy Romney isn’t looking too good, and they are seeing the poll numbers that are showing Newt rising up. This shows what we already know, the left wants Romney to be the nominee BADLY
This is the left at its most desperate.
When I was 13, I got my first steady job soliciting newspaper subscriptions for the Houston chronicle. Before that, I had mowed lawns, cleaned pools and threw a paper route.
My next job was sacking groceries in a supermarket until they made me a checker. This was all before I had graduated from junior high school.
While I was in high school, I worked as a clerk for 7-Eleven and U-Tot-M convenience stores, an attendant at a Texaco station (premium was 33.9 at the time) and a delivery driver for an auto parts store. I had a summer job testing computer tape for Texas Instruments.
Labeled prices and spotted nails from 5-11
Paper route 12-14 (got in the way of sports (rifle team - oh the horrors))
Lifeguarded 15-17
18 was April of senior year
I was at USNA with my stipend by July
Yeah. Wonder if my parents would have been arrested when we were taking care of cows, chickens, our huge garden plus the cotton patch my uncle had on our farm. Guess who took care of that! We grew all our veggies, chickens/eggs, beef and pork. We also had fruit trees and they did not take care of themselves. Wonderful memories. Why bring something like this now?
Couldn’t have said it better myself!!
Whenever someone challenges me in such logic, I always ask them what their fondest memories are. They’ll tell me and I’ll use LibLogic (as much as it hurts my brain) to explain to them why they “shouldn’t” have been allowed to do those things in the first place.
You love riding 4-wheelers out at the family ranch? Not only is that polluting the environment with those dirty engines, but why isn’t the land being used as farmland for the common good?
You love skiing? Do you realize that ski slopes effectively destroy entire landscapes??
Fishing with your grandfather? It’s safer and much more economical and less polluting to purchase farm-raised fish than to burn $150 in gas on a $30,000 boat, all for a haul of a half dozen fish.
...aaaaaaand so on and so forth.
I’ve found that when you use that same logic to hit someone where they have a soft spot, it really drives the point home and opens their eyes.
“I proudly gave the middle finger to the g-nannies when I was 13 and started working for pay.”
I was working for pay at TWELVE, as a Soda Jerk at a drive-in Root Beer stand. Two summers of that, then I got a job part-time job as a freshman at an Ayr-Way Department Store, and did summer farm work on the side, as well.
Didn’t hurt me a bit. In fact, I had one of the nicer cars at school, and paid for it myself.
Add me to the list as well. Steady rotation of cutting grass in the summer and snow shoveling in the winter...Oh, add tax evasion to that as well.
When I was 12, I started working at my Dad’s Gas Station on Saturdays, 7 AM to 10 PM. The word “allowance” was not part of my Dad’s vocabulary.
When I was 10, I had an afternoon Paper Route, six days a week. Delivered the papers and then went door to door once a month to collect the money.
My Dad is 88 now, so I don’t think he’ll last too long in Prison for violating Child Labor Laws. As for the Glendale News Press, I guess Eric Holder better get working on that.
I’m outraged! How dare Newt’s daughter work! That’s against the law!
(MSLSD is simply making Newt’s case that federal child labor laws are CRAP!)
I guess all those boys doing paper routes and mowing lawns were breaking the law as well.
Kids should be learning to make money when they are old enough to ride their tricycles down the street. When I was 5 I used to go door to door collecting empty bottles from my neighbors with my little red wagon and I took them down to the neighborhood store to cash them in. I could make as much as $1.50 on a Saturday.
I also used to get money from my grandmother when I was 6 or 7 for walking down to the neighborhood store to buy her a pack of Lucky Strikes. I’d get to keep the change.
Times have changed.
I grew up in Texas in the 50’s and 60’s. My father went to a friend of his at a gas station and introduced me at 13. He signed a work permit to allow me to work for him. I washed cars and waxed them mostly, but worked the front, sold gas, changed oil, and busted tires for .75 cents an hour. I was a paper boy and mowed lawns from 10 years old. I never had anyone say anything about a child working for money. There may have been laws, bit I don’t remember any. My Father signed the work permit allowing me to work, I think to lessen the liability of the owner.
They just jumped the shark.... every child is given work to do.. at least in my world.
I started a 6 day/wk morning paper route in gr. 4. I wouldn’t let a 9 yr old out alone in the dark these days but those were different times. For the hours I put in, there’s no way I was making minimum wage but I wanted my own money so I got the only job I could get. We’ve turned into a bunch of pc pansies now.
I just ask Liberals why they lock their Front Doors.
They think someone else owes them a living, so why deny others of the things they possess?
Yep. Show me in the US Constitution where it gives the federal government the right to pass labor laws? It ain’t there, my FRiend. It’s yet another distortion of the Commerce Clause which, based on perverse rulings, apparently gives the federal government the right to do anything. Labor does not equal interstate commerce.
Yes they are.... dog-gone-desperate!
the same folks have no problem with girl scouts selling cookies or kids raising money for uniceff
Awww crap. There goes my chance at being president. I too was 13 in the 80s.. My first job was at the churches thrift store. And yes.. I cleaned the bathroom a time or two even did windows and swept the floor.
I was paid 3 bucks an hour I think it was back then. it was a 5 mile bike ride to work.
In the late 1960’s kids worked in the cafeteria and other positions in my school. I was poor and living with an Aunt to take care of her kids, but believe me... I would have loved a job like this that paid me real money. Yeah, kids made fun of the kids in these jobs, but that is LIFE.... get over it.
Under FLSA, no child under the age of 13 can work in a nonagricultural setting, and children of 14 and 15 can work but only for a set number of hours each day. For children working on a farm, the situation is quite different. Children can go to work in the fields as young as nine years old in some states, as long as they have signed parental consent.
federal law “specifically exempted minors working the Entertainment Business from all provisions of the Child Labor Laws.”
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