The first thing that popped into our minds when we saw this headline was: “When did S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster move to Pennsylvania?”
Seriously, if there were ever an “investigation” that belonged in the office of our grandstanding AG, it would be the Pennsylvania Department of Labor’s inquiry into a complaint that the hit show “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ has violated the state’s child labor laws.
And no, we’re not kidding … about this actually happening or about McMaster’s
From the AP:
The Labor Department received a complaint against the show and is “gathering information” from its representatives, department spokesman Justin Fleming told The Associated Press. Fleming would not say when the complaint was filed or who filed it.
The fact a complaint is being investigated doesn’t necessarily mean the department believes the show did anything wrong.
“Any complaint we get, we investigate,” Fleming said.
Child actors and other young performers are protected by Pennsylvania labor law, but it’s not clear whether the law applies to reality TV. Investigators will have to decide whether the Gosselins’ house in southeastern Pennsylvania is essentially a TV set where producers direct much of the action — in which case the law may apply — or a home where the kids aren’t really working but are simply living their lives, albeit in front of the cameras.
Kate’s brother and sister-in-law made waves this week by saying the Gosselins are exploiting their children for financial gain. Jon and Kate Gosselin are reportedly paid tens of thousands of dollars per episode.
Good God.
Seriously.
These kids get free food, free clothes and free trips all around the world to insanely cool places where they get to do pretty much whatever they want.
In fact, we’re pretty sure it’s in their contract to be whisked away once-a-month to some tropical location where they get to play on beaches and water slides – with the only job requirement being that they have to look cute and do what five-year-old kids do.
(i.e. have fun).
Exploited? Sign us up …
By Liberty for me May 29, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Sounds kinda stupid…but Who Cares about this at all??
By CNSYD May 29, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Who gives a rat’s ass about these people? Not I. It doesn’t affect my bottom line.
By cerius May 30, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Interesting… Jon and Kate are investigated for child labor while baton-weilding Black Panthers intimidating voters (and spewing racial epithets) at the polls are embraced by Obama Justice.
Is something wrong with this picture?
By SS Minnow June 1, 2009 at 8:11 am
FITS, do y’all really have 3 separate articles about these d-bags on your site? Come on, nobody gives a damn about these folks..
By Toyota Kawaski June 1, 2009 at 8:24 am
Any thing to get these media whores and there greedy tails off the air im for
By Dixie June 1, 2009 at 11:10 am
How hard does a child work when it goes swimming or craps in its pants.