They need to know their rights, and how to fight back when they are threatened. The AGO does not have statutory authority to waive the time of day restrictions contained in the Massachusetts Child Labor Laws, however the AGO will not take enforcement action as a result of a 16- or 17-year-old child working on a play, movie, or production between the hours of 6 a.m. and 12:30 a.m., as long as the child's parent or guardian has provided written consent to the employer that the work schedule is reasonable given the child's educational and health needs. Note that there are no exceptions or waiver options for the following daily/weekly cumulative hours for minors 16 to 17 years old:Įmployers of minors must comply with other requirements set forth in the Massachusetts Child Labor Laws. A waiver is not the same as a youth employment work permit a work permit is required for all minors aged 14 –17, pursuant to M.G.L. 86-89.An informative New York Times article by Frank Rich (hysterically titled “Just How Gay is the Right?”) unpacked Advise and Consent-not only the magnificent 1962 film directed by CinemaScope svengali Otto Preminger but also the original bestselling novel by Allen Drury (so popular among high school English students at one point in history that it placed some 10 slots higher on a list of “most influential books” than the Bible)-for its still-prescient angle on the sacrificial lambs of American politics namely, the homosexuals. In the plotline, a subcommittee to confirm the secretly ailing U.S. President’s nomination for Secretary of State finds itself battered not only from public accusations that the nominee, Robert A.
Leffingwell (Henry Fonda), is a Communist sympathizer but also the ongoing private blackmailing of the subcommittee chair Sen. Brig Anderson (Don Murray) over his long ago homosexual dalliance with a fellow soldier. Though the near half-century in the interim between Consent’s appearance in the aftermath of the McCarthy witch hunts (which smoked out Communists and homosexuals with nearly equal vigor) and the here and now has seen a very small handful of Barney Franks to oppose the Trent Lotts and Rich Santorums (represented in Consent by Charles Laughton’s terrifying Sen.
Seab Cooley), Rich states that “unprincipled gay-baiting has mushroomed into a full-fledged political movement.
It’s a virulent animosity toward gay people that really unites the leaders of the anti-‘activist’ judiciary crusade, not any intellectually coherent legal theory (they’re for judicial activism when it might benefit them in Florida).
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