Rojgar Job News

If you ever read the state labor laws (wait, you haven’t?), you sometimes come across provisions that seem like they were written for another generation. And indeed, they were. Take, for example, Conn. Gen. Stat. 31-23.  It prohibits children under the age of 16 from working in the “manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or theatrical industry”. That seems to make some sense as far as child labor laws are written. Then it goes on. It also prohibits working in a “restaurant or public dining room.” Public Dining Rooms? I was about to write this off entirely as just outdated but there is at least one reference I’ve found in Connecticut to a “public dining room”.  Grasso Tech’s culinary arts program advertises a “public dining room” on Facebook, so perhaps we can give them a break. And then the statute singles out three other businesses to add to the prohibition: any bowling alley, shoe-shining establishmen...