Does a lemonade stand violate Alabama child-labor laws?

An Alabama eight-year-old had his sights set on Disney World and decided to open up a lemonade stand to help him get there.

However, he and his mother received a surprising call that added a wrench in their plans.

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Cam and his mother Cristal Johnson were contacted by the Alabama Labor Department over a complaint that the lemonade stand violated child labor laws.

“Needless to say, I was very shocked and saddened by the fact that anyone found wrong in what I was trying to do. I was trying to do a good thing, give back to my community and to find out that someone insinuated that I was trying to labor minors, that was…it was pretty sad,” Cristal said on “Fox & Friends First” Thursday.

[This is more complicated than it looks. No one would have objected to her son operating the stand on his own, but Johnson went a step further. She advertised that “Cam is hiring!” and tried to recruit “apprentices” between 6-10 years of age. *That* stepped over the line, it seems clear. You can let your own kid sell lemonade, but when you start hiring other kids, that becomes a business — and it has to follow the law just as other businesses do. — Ed]

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