Child-labor laws vs learning the family trade
A Connecticut pizzeria owner has been told that letting his children help in the kitchen violates child-labor laws. Michael Nuzzo, owner of Nuzzo’s Grand Apizza in New Haven, says he wants his three children to learn the family trade. “It’s our culture,” said Nuzzo. “It’s our tradition.” But a state Labor Department spokesman says the law is designed to protect children from “hot stoves and knives,” and that “we’re obliged to apply the law.”
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