I Googled it, there do not seem to be any laws requiring any breaks for any employees other than minors (which is now changed).

Summary: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/meal-rest-break-laws-louisiana.html

The current law: https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?p=y&d=83835

So this is more than a nothingburger, it's removing the only mandatory break in LA law.

Moving the goalposts now, huh?

Laws are often about edge cases.

Many crimes are about edge cases, including things like murder.

That's not a reason to not make a law about it.

You keep bringing the parties and politics into this and I'm not sure why. I'm not a Democrat, I'm a moderate and you keep deflecting from the discussion of the law to discuss the politics.

I'm just talking about whether this is a good law or not, does the party that did it change whether the law is good or bad to you?

Interesting. Your thinking is that this isn't about the law at all and is a political move on the part of the LA GOP for their own advantage in an election year?

I'm confused how this will help them...

I get that it'll spin up democrats, but how does that benefit the LA GOP?

So just so we're on the same page, you agree that bosses will abuse this and still think that even for children, you don't care?

You said you wouldn't care if other laws existed for shifts longer than 5 hours. That was your standard.

But let's move on... care to respond to my substantive point?

That's revisionist history of your comments, which was talking about laws, but I'll address the substance of your point...

One question for you... since when has relying on the good will of employers been a good idea for low wage workers?

We literally have someone in this thread who has a family member that died because they couldn't get a water break.

You should read "the jungle", capitalism (which I support) requires protections for employees or it will literally kill them.

That doesn't explain what the other redditor is postulating though... which is that it's a calculated political move to benefit the GOP by angering the Dems. I'm not following how that helps them.

"But its removal isn't some principle stance. It's a political move and just a move on a chest board."

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/moderatepolitics/comments/1cznh51/comment/l5ibvkk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Their first paragraph was confusingly written and seems to indicate that they support leaving the current law in place, but the two lines I quoted are quite clear.

The person I was talking to believes that this isn't about the principal stance, they think it's a political move by the LA GOP.

They're saying that it's not about the principle of supporting business, it's a chess move by the LA GOP against the LA Dems.

They literally said it.

They said they're not arguing whether it's a good or bad law, they're arguing its a political move.

If you look back at their comment history, they talked about it angering the dems. I apologize for not fully sourcing everything for you and spoonfeeding it to you, but it's there.

I'm not sure why you decided to enter into this discussion and be antagonistic, but I'm out. Have a nice day.